Just want to say that I didn't expect to take this thing for as long as it has gone and honestly was going to let some else have the idea but you people seem to be enjoying it so ye.
(I recently was able to play Nikke again as I wasn't able to for a while because of not enough storage but I got storage and now am able to play again. The fact that as soon as I came back, I tried pulling for Cinderella and surprisingly was able to get her on the second ten pull, using the tickets that was given out. so ye, luck was on my side.)
i want to say that I have gotten a type of schedule as I will, almost always, update one of my books/fanfics every week, so expect it to update once every 2 weeks as the other fanfic of my takes a lot of writing and thinking so ye
I didn't expect it to take this long (I am saying this after I was supposed to release it but I had to remake the chapter multiple times for it to feel right but even then it still feels like it is missing something or just wrong but eh there is nothing we can do.)
this is all I really had to say so enjoy the chapter
ye
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I was resting in a ruin building with the others. Syuen's companions were being rested against a wall beside me. The others, mostly Rapi, were talking with the commander about what to do now.
The battle with the bastard monkey had caused us to be tired but also us quite a bit of our supplies. I myself was tired and couldn't use my curse energy for a bit, about an hour.
I overheard Rapi talking about a tower in the distance and said that we could go try to go to the tower and get some help from the Ark.
I wasn't being part of their conversation as I was watching over the 2 beside me. Yuni was the one that was worst off as she had been hit directly by the monkey so she had some damages done on her but once she woke up, she should still be able to move and such just with some difficulty. Mihara, on the other hand, was well off as she had passed out, leaving now real damage on her, other than mental damage she had dealt with.
I was sitting on a piece of rubble, watching the commander, as I heard the sound of moving around and a pebble falling on the ground.
Turning beside me, I saw as Mihara was steering awake. Seeing that, I went and grabbed out a bottle of water from my bag. I watched as her eyelids started to widen slowly as her eyes looked around, taking in the information of the area.
"hmm" Mihara lets out a small moan of discomfort as she looks around, shifting in place. "!" she finally noticed where she was and quickly sat up, looking around the place even more.
Her eyes darted around the place, falling onto the commander before turning around and noticing me sitting on the rock beside her.
"You up now?" I said to her. She looked at me for a bit before silently nodding her head and looking around again, her eyes falling onto Yuni beside her.
"W-what happened to her?" the worry in her voice came out as she looked at the resting girl beside her.
"After you went unconscious, she became angry and attack Chatterbox but was stopped and hit away." I said to her as I watched her, while I couldn't see her face as she was facing Yuni, I could tell that she was worried for the girl. "I caught her from being launched away farther and probably from sustaining more damage so don't worry about her, she is not too damaged and will make a recovery." I tried to calm her worry down, seemingly to help her but not by much.
I handed her the bottle of water, which she took with a small nod of thanks. I looked at her for a bit longer before looking back to the commander.
"What do you say commander?" Rapi said to the commander, asking what to do in this confusing situation.
The commander looked onto the floor as he was deep in thought. He looked down for a bit before looking back up with determination in his eyes. "Let's do it."
"How long will it take for us to reach it?" I finally spoke, becoming part of this conversation.
They looked over to me in a slight surprise, the commander also noticed Mihara has finally awoken.
"Normally it would take about 2 hours to reach it." Rapi answered me.
"In the state we're in, I would say half a day." Anis replied. "The longer we take, the more likely we would have to deal with the raptures."
Rapi looked over to the commander. "Commander, can you do this?" she asked worriedly.
"I'm okay." he said, nodding.
"Mihara." Rapi called for her.
Mihara, who was drinking the water I gave, looked over to Rapi. "Yes?"
"Can Yuni disable his sense of pain? Once she wakes up of course." Rapi asked her.
Mihara looked at her for a bit before nodding slowly. "I can switch senses with him for a while, I am adept with dealing with pain."
She looked at Mihara for a bit, thinking. "That's... not a good idea." Rapi said, shaking her head. "The last thing we need is a compromised Nikke."
"I can fight the pain." The commander said, trying to calm Rapi down.
She looked at the commander before nodding. "..Thank you, commander."
"Just try and bear it for a little longer." Neon said with a small hidden concern in her voice. The commander nodded.
"We're all done for once we get back." Anis said, looking down.
The commander looked at her with a small confused face.
"...." Anis looked at the commander for a bit. "They'll never let us get away with the commander getting injured." she said with a small sigh.
Rapi looked over to her. "Now is not the time to think such things." she looked between us. "The priority right now is to contact the Ark."
All of us nodded.
"Let us wait for 30 minutes longer to allow Yuni have a longer time to rest." I said to her.
"Alright." she nodded before moving to a rock and sat down. The commander went over and sat down with her.
I stayed on the rock I was sitting on while Mihara continued to sit beside me, having Yuni rest on her shoulder while slowly drinking from the water I gave her.
"hey..." A soft voice came from beside me. Turning beside me, I looked at Mihara who was slightly hugging her thighs as she rested against the wall.
"yeah..?" I asked softly back.
"Thank you for saving me...." she softly looked down, looking at her thighs.
"Don't worry about it..." I gave her a soft smile.
She looked back up at me and gave me her own small smile. "alright..."
We continued to sit beside each other in a rare peaceful moment of quietness before suddenly hearing the sound of someone waking up.
"mmh.."
"Yuni...are you up..?" Mihara asked.
Looking over to them, I saw as Mihara was watching Yuni, who was starting to wake up from her small nap.
"Mihara...?" Yuni softly looked around the place. "Where....are we..?" she asked her.
"We are in a ruined building." I spoke up, answering her question. "You were knocked out after being hit by Chatterbox, who had run away because of someone." I said, explaining to her before she asked more.
Yuni looked at me, confused for a bit before she suddenly held her head. "uhh!" she held her head in pain.
"Yuni!" Mihara shouted, not noticing her loudness which attracted the attention of the others.
The commander quickly got up and rushed over. "What happen?!" he asked worriedly.
"Yuni seems to be having a headache." I answered.
"Will she be fine?" he continue to ask.
"Don't worry, she'll be fine." I said to him, sighting but trying to calm him down.
"Alright...ah" it seems that his leg caught up to him as he toppled over, I caught him and laid him on the floor.
After placing him on the floor, I went over to Yuni and saw how she was doing.
"uh.." She seems to be doing better as she let her hands off her head and looked back at Mihara. "I remember what happened...." she finally said.
'Oh she was just remembering.' I patted Mihara's shoulder as I thought.
"Mihara don't worry, she is fine." I patted her head. "She was just remembering what happened, it just gave her a headache."
Mihara looked over to me before looking back at Yuni and nodded slowly. "Al..right.."
"It would be smart to let her rest for a bit." A voice came from behind me, turning around, I saw that it was Rapi who had said that.
"Indeed." I agreed, Mihara agreed as well as she nodded her head and put Yuni resting against the wall.
"Thank you..." Yuni softly said to Mihara as she rested.
Mihara shook her head. "Don't worry about it Yuni." She said, giving a small smile and rubbing her face softly with visible kindness.
I looked at them before looking back at Rapi and motioned my hand to leave them be. Rapi agreed with me as she nodded her head and moved somewhere else with me following her.
"So how long do you want to wait." I asked her, wondering how long we can wait for.
"We got about 15 minutes before we should leave." She told me.
"Alright." I nodded. "I'll be with them," I pointed at the 2. "so I'll check over them during that."
Rapi nodded before going back to the commander and grabbing him, helping him up and taking him back to where they were.
I also moved back over to the 2 who were worried for each other. I sat back down on the same rock, watching as they talked to each other, ignoring my presence, which I didn't care for.
I watched over them as the time passed by.
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An hour had passed and we had finally left the ruin and started going to the tower. Currently, though, we were in a small scuffle with some raptures.
I was in the back, helping by hiding, holding Yun, who was blasting at the raptures with her gun, while the rest were fighting. It seemed that they were trying to move around more often as I could see Anis who was moving around the place, hiding behind different things after shooting, and Rapi who was moving from cover to cover. Neon was trying to be explosive and was getting closer to the raptures and shooting them in the core close range.
Mihara was standing back with me, saying that she was protecting me in case of a rapture getting close.
Speaking of Mihara, I could see a faint blue aura surrounding her body, something that wasn't there before, her curse energy is waking up. The blue aura, while being there, wasn't active at all, it wasn't enhancing her or anything. Her curse energy was waking up but it still hasn't been activated.
When I had noticed the curse energy waking up in her, I was surprised, who wouldn't. The fact that there is someone who isn't from a clan or was affiliated with the society of sorcerers but was able to start awakening their curse energy was surprising, especially when they weren't able to see cursed spirits, something which is a tell for having enough curse energy.
It was something to think about later as currently we were dealing with some raptures. Though, they were having an easier time eliminating the raptures than they did before. It seemed that after the fight with Chatterbox, 'the monkey' I subtly thought, they had become stronger, this was an interesting development- 'That was so evil sounding.', I shook my head.
I also noticed that I was having an easier time working with Mihara dealing with raptures that got too close or were starting to group up on one of the girls, mostly Neon. I was telling her, while the commander was commanding the girls, and pointing out the the raptures and she quickly dealt with them, this being something she also noticed seeing how she was slightly surprised.
It didn't take too long to deal with the raptures and we quickly got back to walking on the way to the tower.
"Good job guys." The commander smiled at them.
"Thank you for the words commander." Rapi gave him a slight nod. Her clothes were rather dirty from the new movement she was doing.
"Thanks!" Neon have a happy nod and smile. "I am happy to show my firepower!" she pushed up her glasses with a smirk, somehow causing the glasses to turn white and shined.
'what the f-'
"Yeah commander, it was no problem." Anis gave a smirk while doing a salute.
"You to Mihara." the commander said, turning his head with a smile.
"Thank you." she nodded her head, giving a slight smile.
I looked at the commander and nodded my head at him, he understood what I was telling him so he did say anything to me. He than looked at Yuni, ready to praise her but was stopped by Yuni, who nodded her head, which he just nodded at.
Rapi looked around the place before nodding her head. "Let's continue." she said. The commander nodded his head.
We continued to walk forward, looking at the tower, we have about 3 hours before we reach the tower, at least at this pace.
Rapi was helping with the commander, helping him stand and walk. I, on the other hand, was just helping Yuni walk as she was still rather messed up from waking up.
Mihara was walking beside me, never getting too far ahead or behind me. She would just stare at me from time to time, I am going to ask about later though and just let her do as she wished.
Seeing the time I had, I closed my eyes and tried to sense if my cursed energy was back and noticed it was but something else was also noticeable, my cursed energy was stronger, to say the least.
Opening back up my eyes, I looked over to the commander and infused some cursed energy into my eyes and saw something interesting.
The commander was being softly surrounded by a blue aura, something that wasn't there before, or at least not as powerful. It was also a lot more, I would say that it was originally about a little more than a normal person, just enough to learn jujutsu though, but now it was about the same amount of a grade 2 sorcerer, and he wasn't even a sorcerer.
In fact, turning my eyes over to the other 3 beside the commander, I was given a surprised sight of them all being surrounded by different amounts of the blue aura, Anis being the one with the most and Neon the least.
Anis had something else going on with her aura as there was a faint amount of a yellow and orange color in it.
'It seems that there is a new cursed energy trait in this era.' I thought to myself as I saw the yellow orange in the aura of Anis.
I stopped looking at them and turned my gaze to the one I was helping, Yuni. Looking at her, I could see a large amount of cursed energy coming from her, it was something I haven't seen since the day I first activated my own cursed energy. It was about the same amount of cursed energy as when I was a child, which is impressive by itself as I had the amount of a first grade.
Yuni noticed me looking at her and tilted her head slightly as she looked at me.
"Do you need something?" she softly asked me.
I looked at her and the cute tilt of hers before answering her question. "No, just wanted to check on you." I told her honestly.
She looked at me for a bit, even having her eyes slightly widened, before looking away. "Alright..." she said quietly.
I looked at her for a bit before just looking away and stopped infusing my eyes with cursed energy.
Thinking about it, I was one of the few people in history to be able to 'see' the amount of cursed energy someone has as most could only sense and not actually see it.
I stopped my train of thought as I noticed that some time had passed, about thirty minutes, since I was in my train of thoughts.
'Okay, it did Not feel like time passed that quickly.' I silently thought.
Seeing that everyone has stopped and looking at something, I turned to see that we had finally reached the tower, it was faster than expected but maybe because we were rushing it.
Rapi quickly moved inside and we quickly followed after her.
I hope nothing else bad happens.