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Chapter 149 – Forceful Wills

  He dug his fihrough her on as though it aper. It drove through his point to her. The crushed edges of the metal stabbed into her wrists drawing up droplets of blood.

  Faced with her arm crushed with her on, she made it disappear and removed her hand quickly before his hold cmped down. Nerine jumped back a step with one hand nursing her light wounds. She gnced slightly at them, needing to keep her attention on him. ‘He’s ag more serious, but trolled his strength… That could have broken every bone in my arm if he wa to…’ New armaus appeared over her wrists ending in encapsuting her hand.

  The neon was thiha, but left no gaps ial. It was seamless and rigid with no movement in her hands. Tight design work carved through the metal giving it a smooth textured feel. While weak in appeara was stroha.

  However, Seiji doubted the sight of her neons. “I said to use something stronger. This is a serious fight you said.” He crossed his arms waiting oo ply.

  “You’re holding back your strength as well. You're not being pletely serious in this fight.” Something bothered her about him. Nerine couldn’t pce her feeling, but she didn’t think him to be the same as her. ‘That’s impossible though… But such strength, ossible Law could he be using to do that and at such proximity? He would have to be several times my superior…but my power’s not disrupted by him at all… What is he?’

  “I’m holding back for two reasons. You’re not ing at me seriously yet…”

  The fact that he didn’t give her a sed reason her. Her uneasy intuition only grew stronger. She didn’t know if she wao approach the other reason. For all her pining about him holding back, she felt a noticeable differen his presenbsp; Io fight, which cked before, clearly came from him. He was ready for her. It surprised her how different he felt when he wanted a fight.

  Nerine held up her arms as proof of her resolve for the fight. “I assure that these are much stroha pair. You won’t break them so easily.” Amongst her uainty in him, she forced a hardened expression for him. She he fight to begin and him to believe her. ‘I’ve never met a person that wants a fight, but is so fair and ho about it…’

  Chapter 149 – Forceful Wills

  “Is that so?” Measuring her resolve, he felt her statement was an ho one. However, he khat she still had more to show him. “Let’s see if you keep up for a warm up, then maybe you’ll feel differently about holding back.”

  His remark narrowed her eyes further. If the words came from anyone else, she would have immediately thought them arrogant. Yet she felt an eerie sehat he wasn’t one for audacity. She sensed he had fiden his ability and not unduly so either. ‘I ’t let this strange feeling take a hold of me! I finally have my fight!’ Neriightened her hands within their metal prison. She pulled in all of her stray thoughts to focus solely on Seiji. Re-enforced in her determination, she closed her stao prepare.

  Nerine charged forward the moment she saw Seiji ge his stanbsp; He accepted her call. She brought her neons to bear on him. The moonlight fshed through her swift movement, but she came to a stop. It took her a moment to blink, feeling fused. Her fist ected with him.

  Two things bothered her. The fact that Seiji didn’t even block her attack made the first. Sed came as the fact that it did nothing to him. She didn’t even feel a budge from him even though she struck him hard. Nerine would have been angry with him for not doing anything, if not for the fact that she made nress against him. “Huh?” she uttered after all of the silence.

  Seiji sighed a bit to himself. “This isn’t enough!” He tapped his hand against her metal gau. The force was minor, but it knocked her arm away a her off bance.

  She gritted her teeth through the strain on her joints. The whole thing caught her off guard. Nerine jumped bad ged ons again. ‘Still need more… how tough is he?’ Bulky and projected with holes along the bad front of the almost drical stru, her neon seemed to appear unnecessary rge for show. She lifted her arms up with no effort and charged forward.

  A burst of light from the back of the gau increased her speed and forbsp; Metal came out in front to protect her hands and create a driving forbsp; The speed of her fist increased until it carried her body. Loose dirt kicked up in her wake. Nerine sped for Seiji.

  He sensed something a little different about the tad the speed came to him as a special note. Seiji returo his stand brought out his hand. Her metal cd arm rammed into him pounding out a small shockwave of dust. The force shook his hand a little and dug his feet into the grass. It made Seiji grin a little.

  After a few damn seds passed, Seiji brought his other hand up and grabbed her enrged arm. He spun on his foot rotating a full circle before releasing her off into the air.

  Nerine flipped through the air untrolled from Seiji’s ung. Her eyes spun around seeing ground and sky almost at the same time. She thought her head would explode. Quickly, her body slowed down allowing her mind to catch up on her situation. Making use of the thrust from her ons, she brought her speed under trol.

  Once she felt her body moved as she wanted and not by Seiji’s whim, the ons ged. Her thin ons from earlier appeared. She smmed her fists into the air, hitting it to ge her course. The force sent her speeding for the earth. he ining grass, Neriightened her hand around the air sending off ripples as she used it to slow her dest. Her body came to a full stop timeters from the ground before she let out to drop herself.

  “There you go! Keep that up!” Seiji grinned and pounded his fists together. He took a few steps forward looking hel eager about the fight.

  The excitement in Seiji made Nerine narrow her expression. ‘I hit him with one of my stronger ons and he just blocked it… I’m going to have to get him off guard…’ Nerine ged her ons again. The new ones had spikes along the knuckles and straps around her forearm rather thaal. Most of the metal attached to her hand.

  Seiji’s expression dropped a little bit, notig the weak ass looking on. The look in Nerine’s eyes ged his mind and made him curious. ‘She’s got something in mind. They don’t look that sturdy.’

  Metal cttered together with the closing of her hands. Nerine dug her feet into the earth giving her as much of a boost to her start as possible. She shot forward charging for Seiji. ‘I have to be quick…’ Her legs carried her lightly over the field, shortening the distaween them quickly. Striking out with her fist, Seiji blocked her as she expected, but it wely as she wanted. ‘This’ll work…’ However, she found a surprise after she pulled her hand babsp; No wound or blood appeared on his hand where she hit him.

  It made her take a step back to resider. ‘I know he was injured before by that piece of wood… So why ’t I cut him?’ The unimpressed stare of Seiji annoyed her. Unwilling to accept the situation, she tinued her assault on him. Nerine whaled on him with a barrage of punches. Each punch he stopped with the same minimal amount of effort. He didn’t slow down.

  Nerine came to a stop after she found that nothing worked. She tried breaking through his defense, but nothing. When she went around to sneak behind, he was immediately there ready for her. All of her attacks did nothing. ‘Damn…I need something else…’

  “Eh?” Seiji lifted his left hand up. A damn straingle went down and dipped into his muscles. Wheried to flex his hand, it responded slow as shit for him. He called on it again to test out the sensation. Eaent came slower and more sluggish. “You do something weird to me?”

  The question took her off guard for a moment, but she quickly uood. It had worked on him. ‘I struck him so many times…it took that much just to affect him?’ Neriched his awkward motions, firming it for her. “My paralysis is taking hold.”

  Seiji threw out his right fist into the air at Nerine. “I thought you wanted a fight, dammit! This is supposed to be a and fair fight!”

  “It’s hardly a fair fight with your strength, reflexes and toughness.”

  He still could feel his arm, but it didn’t move as well as he wanted. It felt like water surrounded him. His hand closed into a fist. “Oh well, I guess this will make things more enjoyable anyway!”

  “Enjoyable?” Nerine ched her hands. ‘He really does just love fighting for the sake of fighting. Why is he even trying to help his rades?’ The idea was frivolity.

  ‘Sending another child to me? What is the General thinking these days?’

  Nerine shook her head and focused ba Seiji. The paralysis worked against him. She k would slow him down and weaken him. However, the amount of resistance he put up worried her. Orike should have been enough for anyone. She wondered if it was because she couldn’t wound him with her spikes. A perfeent finally came to her to strike back.

  ons ged on her arms again. The ones she used to grip the air appeared, but slightly different. Metal on the froended around in a ring over her wrist. It hovered in pce, but held no attat. Nerine spun around smming her fist into the air throwing her forward. She let the force carry her off her feet as though she flew. Her fists puhe air at regur intervals to speed towards Seiji.

  Slowed down by the shitty poison, Seiji’s defense didn’t respond in time for Nerine’s attabsp; Her fist dug into his chest bsting out a shockwave that knocked him back a meter. He felt something from her attack that time. “Finally starting to take this seriously!” Seiji bounced back taking a swing at Nerine. His arm didn’t move as he wanted and she fell out of his reach.

  Pung the air to ge dire, Nerine slid out from under Seiji. She came out to his side. Striking him across the faother shockwave blew out from her punbsp; It sent him toppling over through the ground kig up dirt as he slid. Nerihat she made a solid e with him. ‘That had to hurt him…’

  Seiji’s body disappeared among the clouded dirt. The dirt path that led to him held chucks of grass and trails of smoke billowing from the edges. “Hell, that was a nice punch,” he ughed. He stood up through the clouds letting it mask out the lower half of him. His hand brushed against his cheek that looked a little dirtied from her punch.

  A glimpse of surprise painted across Nerine’s fabsp; She khat he was resilient, but she was certain her punch did more to him. ‘Just how tough is he?’ Nerihrew her arms back pounding out twe shockwaves in the air. She flew towards Seiji. Her fists sliced through the air crushing the air to stagger him. He took two puo his chest sliding him baly timeters. A wide swing for her forced her away. She jumped over him with the air punbsp; Everything she threw at him just kept doing nothing.

  Nothing happened.

  ‘Is that all you’ve got? Why did you get sent here? You’re not suited to this task.’

  Nerine gritted her teeth and put more power behind her muscles. However, it didn’t make it through ly. Seiji’s arm deflected a little of it. He id in a ter with his fist aimed for her chest. She barely had time to reabsp; The ons on her arms immediately ged out fer thick metal guards that pletely surrounded her forearm and spread out to direct damage away. Her arms covered in front of her the moment his fist met her.

  She felt nothing for the first sed. The seoment everythi red and poured to bbsp; Nerine coughed not knowing where she was after Seiji hit her. Numb pain spun around her body visiting any pce it could and alerted itself at each jun. She felt surrounded by it.

  Suddenly, she realized that she id on the ground. The grass poked up around her. She didn’t notice it earlier. ‘What happened?’ It took her another few moments to gather her strength. Nerine pulled herself up and looked around searg for Seiji. More than teers away from her, she found him. “Such strength…”

  Seiji lifted up his arm staring at Nerihrough the free half of his vision. “I’m starting to adjust.” He smmed his fist into the damn ground causing it to shake. Earth broke apart and cracked into ks that flew up in front of him. A crater a meter wide and half a meter deep appeared from underh his fist. “My strength as well…”

  Some of his body still had some sluggish movements, but it didn’t affect him as much as it did before. Seiji threw out his fist at the fused Nerine. “Looks like you’ve got me to sweat. I think the warm-ups are over now. I want to see what you’ve been hiding from me! So let’s step up this damn fight!”

  ‘Do you have any abilities that aren’t destructive in nature? Our duty is the safe capture of intruders, not the execution of them.’

  Nerine closed her eyes fighting through the pain. She pushed her body up. The time that she couldn’t remember from Seiji’s attack left her staggering a little. Everything still felt whole for her. She felt lucky that she took no injuries from it. Her skin looked scrapped up and her back sore, but nothing more. She could still fight.

  ‘If yoing to be part of the team you o adapt. You’re useless to us as you are.’

  She nodded silently to herself. The metal of her gaus ed from the punch that Seiji gave her. It mao take the blow, but left an impression on them. “I need something stronger.”

  Seiji tilted his head a little. He barely picked up the words from her. His talks with Yuki made him uand clearly enough that in spite of their powers, they were still humans with a frail ass body. Seiji uood his strength well enough to know what that would mean against her. He felt a little grateful for the poison she gave him si gave him more trol over his strength than he had before. In fights, he always used everything he had without holding back, but he couldn’t fight in such a way any longer. It would be deadly.

  ‘Just a useless child.’

  A ripple in the ground poured out from Nerine’s feet. The grass disappeared from the area creating a rge circle of dried dirt that stretched for a twenty-meter radius around her. “This is the first time in more than a year that I’ve used my Field.”

  Seiji gri the thought. He saw Nerine’s expression. It became determinedly serious. The fight he wanted approached. “Hell yeah! I’m gd to hear that. I’m looking forward to this.”

  “You may regret those words.” Suddenly more than a dozen onized gaus dropped from the air and crashed into the earth. The thick guards on her arm disappeared. One of the ons in the field disappeared and surfaced on her arms. The metal spun out with a life of its own c up to her shoulders. Sharp bde-like edges covered the outside surface while her armloves glowed. “These were meant fhting other MP users. Their destructive potential is nothing like the other ons I’ve used.”