"Seems like only level 4 Reikon. However, we're called to brush it off because there are 2 of them. Seems like a pain," Miyamoto said while reading what was written on his phone.
"Ward 19, right?" Aiko double-checked about the location since she was approaching the exit.
"Hm," Miyamoto answered. He's still focused on his phone for extra information given by the agency.
Ryoka kept quiet the whole way until Aiko pulled the break and reached the destination. It was eerily silent. Not a soul is here besides Squad 3.
There is a protocol regarding what to do when a Reikon goes rogue that has been established recently. Everyone in the vicinity must evacuate and leave the scene immediately. This is crucial as no one can predict when a Reikon might attack civilians again. This explains why the scene was eerily quiet.
But then, a sound of roars snapped the eeriness. Ryoka's reaction was to grip his katana tied to his wrist.
"That's our call," Aiko announced and started running towards the fierce sound.
Both Miyamoto and Ryoka followed her. When they were running, they saw the road was full of holes, not the kind caused by rapid use by heavy transports. They passed 2 blocks and took a turn to the left. Then they saw it. A Reikon with the size of half a car. Its appearance was much different than what Ryoka fought the other day.
This Reikon didn't look like a human at all. It looked like an enlarged version of-
"Ew, Tardigrades," Ryoka said after closing in on the creature.
"What? Oh yeah, just realized that," Miyamoto laughed.
"I don't know what that is. And I don't plan to know either," Aiko stopped running.
They spaced themself about 4 meters from the Reikon. The Reikon heard them and turned its body. Ryoka tried to find its eyes but gave it up immediately when the Reikon bawled. The three of them saw something colored purple spewed out, so they leaped out of the way. It melted the road.
"Acid? Now that's just basic," laughed Miyamoto after landing.
"Now Ryoka. Be our vanguard, can you?" Aiko turned to Ryoka.
"What? Are you sure?" Ryoka puzzled. He sheath his katana out from the cover. He gripped comfily the dark-blue-bladed katana.
Aiko smiled, "Just you see why I'm so sure," she took a few steps forward and tied her long hair to the back. She swung her arm to stretch, "Come on, Miyamoto. Let's show off a bit to our junior here. Do our combo," she stretched out her arm and then opened her palm wide.
Miyamoto chuckled, "Oh, I agree," he spread both of his arms wide open.
Ryoka frowned out of confusion. He thought, won't they go in front and-
"Gravity authority," chanted Aiko. She turned her palm to the Reikon waiting to attack and closed it shut.
"Earth authority," Miyamoto chanted his own ability.
Ryoka was speechless after seeing what happened next. It was as if a scene that only he could see in a manga.
Aiko moved her fist up. The Reikon followed it and flew up. For a few seconds, the Reikon flew up with immense speed. At once, Aiko dead-drop the Reikon back to earth. It dashed down.
Seconds before it touched the broken road, Miyamoto gestured with a straight arm, to go up. The road went up and up. Parts of the ground mixed up with the road to hit the Reikon's face.
The power of gravity and kinetic energy crushed the Reikon but that wasn't enough. So both of them repeat the process by going left and right, up and down. Before long, the buildings and road were sprayed with purple blood.
Ryoka even sat down on the road to watch as the spinning Reikon was crushed by the force of gravity and the killer momentum. Once they were finished, they immediately set out to search for the last Reikon.
The final Reikon was just a block away from them. This time, it resembled the kind he had seen back at the café. It stretched out its hand, and something emerged from it.
A fist-sized thorn shot past them. Before they could react, hundreds of thorns were hurtling toward them. Aiko smirked and used her Gravity Authority to redirect the wave to the left. While that, Miyamoto rose a thick wall made of ground on the left. This was to minimize damage to builds.
None of the thorns pierced through the thick wall but it was astonishing enough that the Reikon pierced it halfway. The Reikon then paused its attack and stared at the three humans challenging him.
Aiko gave a gentle push at the back after seeing the Reikon, "Let's practice our combo I told you back at the agency," he stood next to Ryoka.
Ryoka grinned, "I was waiting in that line, let's do this," he gripped the katana's handle.
Aiko once again used her ability to control the Reikon and dragged it to them. The Reikon didn't need to get close to them for him to slash him.
He could perform an air slash, a special ability executed with an enhanced item. As he slashed the air with his waved katana, a light blue line formed and flew toward the Reikon.
At that moment, Ryoka felt a surge of determination, realizing he was about to take down a Reikon for the first time. Time seemed to slow down as the air slash approached, just a hair's breadth away from piercing the Reikon, when he suddenly heard something.
It was rather unclear. It was a bit fuzzy too. He heard a voice whispering, "Thank you,"
Miyamoto shouted a cheerful "hooray" to Ryoka for successfully defeating a Reikon, praising the power of his slash. Aiko also inquired how Ryoka managed to perform that technique on his first attempt.
However, Ryoka was preoccupied with a much larger question;
Did the whisper come from the Reikon?