Book Four
Volume 11
Ch. 174 Kaiju no. 10
Pov.
-Cana-
"Yeah, you saw that? That was awful" Himiko stretches her arm, "good as new!" She giggles
I lick my lips after gulping down the last bit of… blood.
She's feeding me blood.
And it tastes so… so good. I sniff
Thanks to that my wounds keep healing and healing. No matter how deep she cuts, no matter how many limbs she tears off…
What… What am I?
God… please.
Give me…
Strength.
Pov.
-Kara-
3 weeks later
…
I crawl over to the creek.
I reach out to grab a handful of water but… my hands hadn't quite yet healed
Half my face was still sizzling as well.
Slower than ever…
I dump my head into the creek and fall back asleep after having a few drinks.
A few hours later my hands were back and so was my face
I scroll the weight up to 150k before puking a mixture of blood and bones
I force myself up, nearly collapsing beneath all the weight.
I walk back to the nearest road before teleporting back to the child when I healed enough
"It's been three weeks… are you going to tell us her name yet?"
…
"Where's number nine?"
"Hmf!" Kikoru pouts
"It hasn't been seen since… well you know." Soshiro grumbles, refusing to give me recognition for scaring it off
"Coward." I grumble
I need to progress faster. I need a good spar. I look over at Kafka
He shakes his head.
I have yet to see the full extent of his power.
Still, I'll have to restrain myself.
"Kya?! What the hell are you?! A brick wall?!" Kikoru yelps after being shoved into me.
Course I hadn't felt a thing.
"What the hell do you want?"
"Oh… uhh… party, we're celebrating our first mission accomplished. Course you weren't there, but everyone wants to see you."
A party?
Now that I think about it. I haven't been to one in months. I've been too busy.. training…
I nod.
"How about we throw it in my penthouse? Everything is on me."
"P-pent…" her eyes widen
That way… I look at the child.
"Kekeke!" She crunches her fingers to the sky before sticking them between her toes
…
I head back to my penthouse where I had the staff either dancing or serving drinks by the time everyone arrived
There were plenty of tens but…
I wasn't feeling it.
All I could think about was Cana… and what Toga must be doing to her…
"Hi, baby. What's your name?" Kikoru sits the child on her lap
"She doesn't have one."
"Wh-what?"
…
"Cana… right? Her mother…"
…
"My dad travels to Kyoto, often for business trips so he's bound to have heard about you."
I nod
"I've heard what happened… Daddy said the entire continent is looking for her."
"Yeah…"
Except, they're never going to find her.
After a few more drinks we were both slumped on the couch
She was giggling and grinding all over me.
And I very blankly lead her on.
Now that I think about it. I've been celibate ever since they took her from me…
I shake my head.
Why?
It is only flesh, isn't it? Another worldly desire.
…
Even then, I couldn't bring myself to do anything with her
…
The blaring alarm outside woke everyone up at around 3 in the morning.
"We're under attack!"
"Shit." I cover my mouth.
A hangover?
Since when do I get those?
I reach for the rest of the beer I left
After chugging it I puke over the balcony.
"Good as new." I slap my face with water
"Attack, we're under attack!" Kafla slaps everyone awake as an explosion erupts behind me.
A building three blocks away collapses as the recruits jump over the balcony, into their gear and ready to fight.
Let's see…
Number 9…
No.
I smile
"Who is this?" I teleport to its exact location.
It was a red cyclops's looking Kaiju
"Are you the strongest human on this base?" He asks the vice captain
"Nope." I pull Soshiro aside. "I Am."
"Very well, then you are my prey." He raises his hand
A flick of his middle finger had so much concentrated force that it blew a hole straight through the buildings behind me
I dodge his quick follow up and pat my hand on his face
The sheer weight of the wristbands alone were enough to bury him into the ground.
I quickly jump away
The air around him snaps as he annihilates the sound barrier within a few steps
Our clashing fists creates a sinkhole that began to devour the buildings around us as the defense force hurried to evacuate the people
I launch myself into the sky
He quickly follows suit.
He punches straight through my afterimage. I smash my feet onto his back, sending him crashing into the training grounds
He blocks my shin the moment I land beside him
I bob under his hook and jump over his tail
I smash my knee into his temple before he jerks his body around and smashes his shin into my arm
I crash through a few buildings
After bringing myself to a halt I swing my arm over, sending the rubble flying at him like missles
He braces himself as I continue the barrage, collapsing building after building in order to keep him at bay.
After finally laying off I lunge at him and smash two rassengans into his chest
"Shit." I cough after he wraps his arms around my waist, brings me over his shoulder and slams me into the ground
After leaving a crater 5 feet deep and 20 in diameter the ground swallowed us whole
He kicks and tears through the ground as I change the properties of the dirt to allow me to flow and swim back to the surface
The ground hardens into stone.
"Red." I blast him in the face with the curse technique the very moment his head erupted from the ground
I wait for the dust to settle, revealing the annihilation of the upper east side of the block and the giant he transformed into 100 meters into the sky
"Seriously, trash?"
I raise my hand as his foot fell to squash me like a bug,
Susanoo erupts from the ground beneath me, slicing his torso perfectly in half.
His lower body stood in place like a statue for a moment.
"Tch, fucking coward." His corpse crumbles into a massive ball of flesh, ready to blow and easily capable of leveling everything within 10 miles.
"Kara!" Kafka hurries to my side
"Should I…" he looks up as the meatball floats up towards the sky to increase its explosive range
"No," I set the bracelets to gradually increase according to the amount of energy I'd be putting out
Now…
I cup my hands behind me.
Kaioken
"Times Fifteen."
My muscles bulge for a brief moment before settling back to normal
"Ka…"
The weight around my bracelets raced past a million pounds to overcome the surge of energy.
"Me…"
A rasengan snaps and cracks with electricity as it spins faster and faster the more ki energy I poured into it
"Ha…"
The rasengan takes the final form as a perfectly spherical blue ball of energy glowing a brighter hue every second.
"Me…"
The weight holding me down continues to grow although more gradual, as it neared two thousand tons
"HAAAA!"
The unsuppressed Kamehameha obliterates the entirety of the city sized training arena
It bends upwards to the massive ball of flesh completely annihilating every trace of its existence
That's not…
I hold it for a few more seconds before the weight became far too much
My wrists bury themselves into the ground only after generating a crater about six feet deep and thirty feet in diameter
"Enough…" I huff
After reducing my energy output the weight gradually returned to zero, seeing that even 100 pounds was enough to drop me to my knees
I check back with Kafka
"Shit." I grumble, seeing that he transformed in order to protect everyone from the blast
I did plan to spar with him as well but…
I'd utterly annihilate him as I am now.
As for All Might.
…
Almost.
…
"Ba!" The girl claps
She covers her face
"Ooo!" She giggles after attempting to frighten me with the peek-a-boo technique Kikaru showed her.
1 week later
"Y-you're not staying?" She asks as I sit the girl inside the potato sack
"No."
"Wh-what if number nine…"
"Kafka can handle him."
"What? Is it… Cana?"
…
I take my things, after everyone insists on saying goodbye I head back to Kyoto.
"Kara!" Deku jumps along with Ochaco and everyone else
"What?"
"You're finally back!"
"So what?"
"Jeez you look stronger and stronger every time."
"Where's All Might?"
"He just got back from Hokkaido too!"
"Good."
"Hey, where's-."
Before they could ask any questions I teleport myself to the press.
There I made a statement challenging All Might for the title of Number 1 Hero.
"What are you crazy?!" Midnight shouts "do you have any idea how much shit I'm getting from the Association?!"
"And what?" I cross my arms
"Since when do you even care to bare that kind of responsibility?! You don't even have your official hero's license yet! So even if you do beat him. It won't be a valid win until you get one!"
"It's not about that. I just want to give it a shot. Test my limits." I shrug
"Test your…" she grumbles. "You're not going to and that's-."
I grab her face and split her head in two. I slit her throat and I slaughter her 300 various ways through my Tsukuyomi the moment she looked into my eye
"Ghee?!" She shrieks, cowering away as I walk her into the corner
"I'm going to fight him." I lean in and lower my head to meet her gaze "and nobody's going to stop me."
"F-fine." She whimpers, squeezing her eyes shut
…
I won't allow it.
I've waited long enough
…
"Mei Hatsume." I dangle my wrist over her head "fix these. The number is getting harder to see."
"Alright, just hand them-. Kya?! Is that four million?!"
"Are you crazy?! You're limbs are going to tear off!"
"Just fix it." I set my hand down on her table
For the next week I'll be walking around in the highest Kaioken I can manage.
After she tinkers with the bracelets and connects them to her computer they read 2000 tons
"It's set to display tons in scientific notation, as well as solar masses. It'll go even beyond that so don't ever come back! It insults my integrity!" The number switches to 2x10^3 before reverting to the 2000
"Good."
"Hey, wait."
"What?"
"Why… Why are you pushing yourself so hard?"
…
Training leading up to the battle consisted of only handstand pushups, pull ups, and sit ups. In order to train my body to manage the Kaioken technique at its full potential.
…
The battle itself was scheduled within a week on the secluded Island of Izu Oshima
That is when He will make his move.
And Cana…
How can I be certain he will give her back?
What about Toga? Will she really just… let her go?
But what choice do I have? There's absolutely no way I can find her myself.
All I can do is…
Hope…
-1 week later
I step out of the healing chamber
"Kara…" Momo holds my towel
"Is this… What He asked you to do? To defeat All Might?"
"To Destroy the Symbol of Peace."
She sighs
"If that's what it takes…" she bows her head "then please… bring her back to us!" Tears trickle down her face.
…
"With a base power level of 1.5 million and speeds topping one hundred thousand Machs! All Might has shown to be the most powerful being our continent has seen in Centuries!"
"I agree, but Kara quickly climbing up to a power level of one million himself has shown to be more than a suitable match for All Might given his Saiyan AND Eldian heritage!"
"Get ready to bear witness to the greatest fight of the decade! No! Century! No, the greatest fight of Japanese History!" Both commentators shout through the loudspeakers
"Alright, we'll see you when this is all over!" Momo waves, holding the child in her arms.
"Yeah, don't push yourself too hard!" Deku shouts
"Shut up!" Kachan growls "you better destroy him so I'll challenge you next!"
Todoroki waves along with everyone else before the ship turned around and sailed back to the mainland.
All Might was all ready on the island.
He had been training and warming up ever since I called him out.
And from the looks of it he had just stepped out of the Healing Chamber himself
"Kara… I can't say I'm surprised it has come to this."
"Whatever do you mean?"
"You, working for All for One."
…
"I thought you'd be wiser than to trust him."
"You tell me, what the hell else am I supposed to do?"
"Trust us… trust that we can and we will find her. This… violence is not the answer."
"I trust you about as much as I trust All for One. So… shut up… and fight me."
The giant bell across the Island rings, letting us know that every boat and every aircraft is at a safe distance or rerouting
"Very well…" he erases his smile, taking on a more serious tone.
I tug my fist back
I snap into Kaioken x10
All Might blocks my fist with his own, the impact annihilates everything within a ten mile radius
…
-to be continued