"No Tom", Erin shouted, sending out a spike made of ice at Kenji, Kenji dodged the spike effortlessly, allowing it to fly past his face.
"The next attack, and I would electrocute him. " Kenji said, quickly changing the situation to his advantage.
'There is something I'm not understanding here, suddenly people have superpowers? and these three looked like they were purposely trying to lose out to that zombie from earlier but were trying to make it look hard as soon as they sighted Kenji, so what exactly were they.
"Who are you people? " Kenji asked without hesitation, this was the first thing he needed to know.
"Don't hurt him Kenji. " Ace said, stretching his hands, "Or I'd make sure to kill you. " Ace said with a menacing look in his eyes.
"Wrong answer. " Kenji replied angrily, using his immense strength to halve Tom's body and letting it drop to the ground.
"Bastard!!! " Ace screamed, his palms began glowing, and flames coated his fists immediately.
"Oh please, we both know you didn't care about him, if you did you wouldn't have mindlessly threatened me despite having his life in my hands." Kenji said, this was also part of the things he was testing, he could only obtain information from them if he had leverage.
"Erin, are you going to help? " Ace asked angrily, he wasn't sure he could handle Kenji alone, he had taken down a level 3 zombie on his own after all.
"Why, why did you kill Tom. " Erin said with anger in her eyes and tears rolling down her cheeks, what Kenji said checked out, and it had planted seeds in their relationship.
'Now, if I am right, he would take her life too. " Kenji thought to himself, observing the two superhumans standing before him.
"You really did want him dead didn't you. " Erin said but Ace didn't speak a word.
"It's over Ace. " Erin said turning her back and ready to walk away, but a scythe instantly cleaved off her head, leading to her death.
'And that is why I'd never fall in love again, it always leads to death but not everyone comes back like me. ' Kenji said to himself with a smile internally.
Kenji only had the ice power copied, the lightning ability from Zack had been over written by that of Erin when he decided to copy.
[+150 EXP]
[Name: Kenji Haruta
Level:5
EXP:31/500
HP: 50/50
Age:16
Rank in Japan: 680/980
Rank in Asia: 79,800/900,000
Global ranking:48,000,000/,999,000,000
Powers copied:1[Level 1 Ice]
Skills:6
Stats
Mana Points:150/150
Strength:19
Speed:26
Perception:19
Stat points:10]
Kenji stretched out his hands, firing an ice spike at Ace who was quick enough to counter with a fireball.
Both attacks clashed in mid air, the ice spike was destroyed immediately and the fire ball continued onwards.
But to Ace's suprise, Kenji was nowhere to be found, the sound of the air behind him being cut wad enough to pull him back to his senses.
[Mana Slash]
Raw mana coated Kenji's sword, giving him a deadly advantage and in a single swift motion, a perfect slash was performed.
Ace barely managed to block with his scythe but his face had been scratched by Kenji's attack.
'A scythe and a sword are weapons that need a considerable distance between the striker and it's target, if I take away that I also cripple my own advantage with the sword. ' Kenji thought to himself, he immediately resheated his sword but something else had been activated.
[-10 Mana]
[Mana fist has been activated]
Kenji crashed his fist into Ace's stomach, lifting him off the ground and sending him flying several meters into the air.
As soon as Ace reached Kenji's chest level, another attack followed, with his fist still coated with Mana, Kenji planted a slap on Ace's face, sending him flying once more.
Ace was quick on his feet and with a little maneuver he was able to get back up on his feet, only to meet Kenji beside him once more and this time an ice spike had been fired through his knee, rendering hin immobile.
"Arghhh." Ace grunted, lifting his head and hoping to see Kenji, all he felt was another slap on his face, dismantling his face beyond recognition.
Kenji had the chance to copy Ace's powers but there was no need to do that, he was capable of taking Ace on his own, if his system had offered him a quest then he would have thought differently, but for now, Ace wasn't even a threat to him.
Kenji pushed his hand into Ace's back, his strength had already gotten to a dangerous level so it didn't take anything for him to Pierce Ace's skin and grab onto his spine.
"Answer my questions carefully, or God help me I'd rip out your spine and leave you to die a painful death. " Kenji said with a cold and non chalantly tone.
"Never, I'd gladly go out as a traitor to the human race than help you in any way. " Ace said, and Kenji dug his hands deeply, pulling on his spine a little.
Kenji had spent his lifetime watching and reading about fantasy villains, so he knew how exactly to torture a person.
"Fine, what do you want to know!! " Ace said while groaning in pain, it felt like Kenji was severing his soul from his body.
"What exactly does it mean to be a Meta human? "Kenji had heard Ace use this term a couple of times before but he wanted to be sure of it's meaning.
"A meta human is simply a person with superpowers. " Ace said with occasional groans.
"And how long have you been a Meta? " Kenji asked with a keen expression on his face.
"Two months. " Ace answered and Kenji had confirmed a suspicion, before the apocalypse there were Meta humans.
"And how did you know you were a Meta? " Kenji asked Ace who was already beginning to cry from the pain.
"It just happens, some people don't even find out they are Metas and die, some activate it after extremely traumatic events, some die and then resurrect discovering that their Meta abilities was immortality. " Ace answered honestly.
"Thank you for your service. " Kenji said and in a single clean move he had pulled out Ace's spine, leaving him to die a painful death just like he said he wouldn't.
[You have killed a level 2 Meta human
+400 EXP]
'Only a hero would leave him alive, and the last one I knew died a gruesome death. ' Kenji said to himself, heading towards Buy Rite, he needed to get to the bottom of this zombie thing and he needed to do it fast, just like he could level up, so could the zombies