''Speak''
'Thought'
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"The hell you mean magic?" I ask immediately while still doing those black spikes launching toward me.
"Oh, you know, magic, the power or act of influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces. You know, magic." Mary said casually before continuing, "Or maybe my child become so smart because it has my DNA in it; that's why they become so smart. Ah, just thinking about it makes me so proud."
"Oh, shut up. Just because it has your DNA doesn't mean it has your brain!!"
"That's why I said magic because I simply have no answer for it; that's why I said magic."
Just like that, I look at her which a look that is probably screaming, 'are you serious!?'
Mary rolled her eyes from seeing the look on my face before answering.
"Don't look at me like that. Do you seriously think I would have an answer to your every question? Don't be ridiculous."
Well, she did make a good point there.
The monster's roar made my eyes snap back toward it, and before I knew it, the monster rushed forward while still shooting iron spikes at me.
Reacting fast, I create more Rashomon heads before commanding them to fly forward, destroying any iron spikes while some fly toward the monster, trying to eat right then and there. Still, the monster swings its arms wildly in response, re-directing all of my attacks.
Before I knew it, the monster was right in front of me, swinging its massive crab arm downward, aiming straight for my head. I can also see the crab glowing slightly red, meaning that the monster somehow uses Rashomon to enhance the attack.
'If that is the case, then...!!'
Instead of jumping away to make some distance or activating my Rashomon to block the attack, I have an idea, see how the monster used my power.
In response to the monster attack, I pull my right arm backwards while extending my fingers forward and closing them together before thrusting forward, aiming at the massive crab swinging down at me.
I can quickly destroy or leave marks on something like stone with my new pairs of arms, so I'm pretty confident about my current physical strength, but I knew that would not be enough.
After all, the monster attack is enhanced by my power, Rashomon; even if it is only a fraction, or maybe a fraction of a fraction, it doesn't matter; it's still part of my power, and if there is anything I know very well with my Rashomon is that my power can be very destructive, so that is why I will not give them any chance.
While thrusting my hand forward, at that moment, I immediately changed my right sleeve into Rashomon and instead of using it on an offence, I decided to command my Rashomon to be wrapped right hand instead.
Now, my right arm and hand are wrapped in Rashomon's black cloth while also slightly glowing red aura, which results in what looks like armour covering my right hand and arm, while the nails seem to get longer and somehow look even sharper.
Thrusting my hand forward, it makes contact with the massive crab arm, and when that happens, we both struggle for a second; seemingly, there is an invisible force that seems to stop my hand from piercing through its crab arm.
This can also be said with the monster attack, which seems halted when it contacts my hand.
But that invisible force that seems to stop both me and the monster attack appears to be broken in a fraction of a second, which is s company by some glass-breaking sound. At that moment, the red aura surrounding the monster crab arm disappeared, and my hand was quickly thrust forward, still covering with my Rashomon.
My hand go forward, piercing through the crab arm before going right through it, which results in the claw of the crab arm immediately getting cut off quick and clean, and part of my cloth instantly transforming into Rashomon's jaw and eating that crab craw directly.
Seeing this, I let a small smile, or a slight smirk on my face, because I confirmed that I could use my Rashomon to enhance my attack and make it more deadly and effective.
This leads me to want to experience my power more; what else can my Rashomon indeed do? Before, I only thought that my Rashomon could only be used offensively, but now I have discovered that my Rashomon can do much more than that.
But at that moment, I seemed to let my guard down because, in my feeling of excitement of my happiness, I accidentally let my guard down and forgot that this monster could regenerate.
At that moment, the monster used another arm, its tentacle arm, swinging it right at me with its tentacle also glowing a slight red aura.
The tentacle hit me directly on the stomach, but instead of genuinely hitting my organs inside the body, the arm stopped before truly hitting my stomach.
The reason is straightforward, just like before, when I was fighting the group of those bastards back in District X, I put a small amount of Rashomon inside my body while activating it to devour space constantly so that if any attack does hit me, it would stop and only piercing my skin, which is still kind of hurt, but better than have fractured bones or internal bleeding.
But like before, any attack from this monster that Rashomon enhanced is capable enough to destroy my shield and go through my Rashomon devour space ability, but the time bought by the protection was enough to regain my concentration.
The shield breaks with the attack, but I already turn my jacket into Rashomon before cutting off the tentacle arm of the monster.
At that moment, the monster regenerates a new crab arm, which I immediately see, causing me to jump back, making some distance between the monster and me.
The monster roar at me, seeing how I make a distance between me and it, while Mary seems to be still watching from not very far away, seemingly writing a note down.
But while all of this is happening, I hear something coming from the sky that sounds very similar: an engine.
The engine sound seems to immediately gain the attention of me, Mary and the monster. All of us directly look up, and my eyes widen, seeing a similar black jet with an X symbol.
Surprised is the emotion I feel at that moment, but that emotion only appears for a few seconds before immediately being replaced by a new feeling.
Rage, a massive amount of anger, knowing full well who is in that jet, a smile starts to form on my face again before turning into an enormous grin reflecting my desire.
At that moment, only one thought plagued my mind.
'This time, I'm going to fucking kill you all!!'