CHAPTER 31: Thank You, Everyone.
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"Well, since you have no detection I'm going to... have to use that to my advantage!"
"You can try, but... Well, honestly I don't know!"
"Wow, you really are stupid."
"You're one to talk!"
"Gorilla's Jungle Gym!" That's when Jano started to jump all around Heita and punched her really hard.
"Gorilla's Jungle Gym!" That's when again Jano started to jump all around and punch Hesita really hard.
"Gorilla's Jungle Gym!" "Gorilla's Jungle Gym!" "Gorilla's Jungle Gym!" Hit after hit after hit. Hestia kept taking those hits.
"It seems you're struggling against this absolute beast of a man I am! Well, I'll tell you this, this is the last punch you'll be able to withstand! So... Goodbye." Jano said before taking a stance and having Zoe pour out of him and inside him and make the room change. The room had a darker presence and the bad intent he had was enough to suffocate Hesita... He was going to kill her.
"Jano's Super Gorilla, Over The Top, Most Best, Magnificent, Dazzling, Most Outstanding, Remarkable, Supposed To Kill You No Matter What, Ultra Punch!" Jano said punching Hesita straight in the stomach making blood gush outside of her nose, ears, and her mouth.
She fell over, and didn't move. Her eyes were rolled back and she looked to be dead.
"See, Jano manliness is the best you'll ever see."
"Hestia, I want you to know that even If I die, I want you to always be happy."
"Who cares about happiness, happiness for people who can't accept the real world."
"That's not true Hestia, somewhere out there you'll find people who give you happiness and will make you one of the happiest people on earth. I know your life wasn't perfect, However, I swear the world isn't that cold."
"How can you be so sure!?"
"Well, I met you. You're not mean, you're not cold."
When I lost you, Blaze I didn't know how to feel at the time. For the longest time, I was sad and depressed but then I met this guy who took me out of that. His name was Alfred, he gave me a home and showed me a greater meaning of life than to be depressed and your words always ring in my head. Somewhere out there huh? Yeah, I found them, even if they get on my nerves.
Alfred, Apollo, Erebos, Both Dions, The small detective group, even the new kid, and everyone in the agency. They all care for me, they all helped me at my lowest of lows and made me feel the highest of highs. If I die, I'll die laughing, smiling.
"She is finally dead."
"Blaze."
"You're still alive, I guess I have t-"
That's when Hestia ran straight toward Jano and punched him hard, square in the face.
"So I'm guessing this is it. The word you choose to have a pact with your ability. Blaze is it?"
"Threads Of Fire! Wall Of Flames!" That's when A wall of Threads went down and cut Jano everywhere yet again.
"Gorilla Jungle Gym!" Jano said jumping around everywhere and going for the punch.
"Take this!"
"Fine."
That's when Jano first got caught in a web that he couldn't unstick his hand from.
"What. What is this? What are you trying t-" That's when Hestia kicked him in the face. Then she started to repeatedly kick him and punch him until he was beaten up. Until he was all bloody and couldn't move.
This is the difference in skills when Blaze is in use. I don't like to use it, I hate to use it on people. I wanted to kill those No-Names that have no regard for human life, however, I have to kill the bad people on this earth.
"There, I won't kill you. However, you'll remember this beating forever. I didn't want to do this, you..."
"Wait, there's something I'm willing to do."
"What?"
"Let's make a deal!"
"Depends on the deal."
IN THE FIGHT OF JANO VS HESITA
HESTIA WAS TRIUMPHANT
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"Get revenge? How can you get revenge... if you can't even hit me." That's when Don dashed over to me and kicked me in the face.
"I don't care if you can't take physical damage! I'll find a way!"
I need a way to punch him. To do damage. He said that he only didn't have his ability usage to its potential, so that means it's toggleable. However, when I punched him it put him hard enough that he had to toggle it back on.
"Stop thinking when we're fighting!" That's when I got slapped by a tentacle and thrown in the sky.
"What happens to swearing revenge!" He then slapped me down again and then picked me up then slapped me down and repeated to do the same thing in between his tentacles. I could hear his mischievous laugh, his annoying laugh. I want to harm this man so bad.
Think! Think! What did he not realize before until I punched him?
"There are no tricks to this kid! You're just weak! Simple as that!" He then stopped playing ping pong with my body and started just slapping and punching me, and I couldn't fight back. I'm starting to lose my consciousness, I'm starting to lose everything. After all that training, all those words I said, even when I thought I was being smart, I could never stack up to his levels.
"Hey Z, Remember to be adaptive."
Be more adaptive. That's right I thought I understood back then but maybe I didn't. What can I do that can help me break through!? That's it! That's when I let him hit me, more and more. Even when I thought I was going to die on the next hit. That's when I felt it, I heard it, I sensed it.
"Left, Right, Right Left, Right." I dodged in that pattern and I dodged out of all his hits.
"What? Don't tell me you're... training your Detection by being beaten to death?"
"I won't give in until I die!"
"Well then, think fast!"
"Right." Dodged it again.
"How about this!"
"Left."
He then kept throwing his punches and tentacles at fast speeds and I was doing pretty well, I could sense which way they were coming from and where they were going to end. It's like seeing the future.
"You think you're so good, huh? Well, then I guess I'll have to raise my levels. Now let's play a game of cat and mouse! Let's see who lives for longer."
That's when I tried to dodge however, this time I got hit, really bad.
"I told you, this is now a game of cat and mouse, no more dodging, only running!"
I started to run all around the room, the different machines and monotone walls that give the room the sad and dull look that it did make me go sick as I kept running in circles away from the beast. I also had trouble getting around the big chunks that stuck outside of the wall in a way that I can only say was placed to slow me down. Even if I knew it was built beforehand, it felt like an obstacle.
"What happened? You're starting to be scared again! You're starting to run around like I said you do from the beginning of this fight! Face it, kid, you'll never be like the boy with the swords, the girl with the lightning, me."
I won't lose this fight. I won't lose this fight. For Aza, for Koji, for Alfred, for everyone! I will push through! Think Z! Think of a way to kick his ass completely!
"Be adaptive."
Be more adaptive! Be more adaptive! Do something no one else can do! Your issue is he cannot take physical hits, so you need to hit him with something not physical. Your defense is also weaker than his so make your output strong!
"Before I kill you, I want to ask something."
Huh... He's going to ask me something...
"Can you tell the girl without the leg to come back down from heaven? She wasn't that bad looking for her young age, maybe when she turned 18 she could be mine! I can see her now sucking m-"
"You've done it now! Take this Stravinsky Septet! Movement 2-"
"Oh no, you don't! I was waiting for you to take the bait! Specialty Zoe: Tentacle Trap!"
I'm an idiot, I fell for the trap. I didn't see him planning it, like an idiot. I'm surrounded by them anyway. It is a bad way, I'm going to die. I'm going to die, aren't I? No. No. No! I don't want to die! I don't want to d-"
"Let's shake on it!" I put my out towards Apollo.
"Shake on what?"
"The safety of each other! No matter what happens, we'll not get hurt or at least too bad. Maybe a couple of scratches and a nosebleed!"
"Alright," Apollo said putting his hand out and shaking mine.
"This is a promise you can't break," Apollo said after we were done shaking our hands.
"Be more adaptive!"
"Mm?"
"..."
"Heh, I guess the kid was all talk and no bite. For a second there I thought he was going to hurt me or something. But he ended up getting squished by my tentacles anyways. Talk about incompetent, a true idio-"
"Two Sword Style! 4th-Pack! Dancing Stars!"
"You're back!? And you can still move!? There's no way!" Blood gushed out of one of the tentacles as Koji grabbed Z's body.
"Z!? Z!? Don't tell me you die! Z!?"
Silence, he was met with silence.
"Z! Please be alive! I can't take another loss!"
"It's funny, you're still trying to cling onto dead people it seems. Face it, kid, he's dead. I can feel it from here. There's no way for him to tank that attack, it's one of my strongest attacks. He scared me for a second but I made sure he died this time."
"No. No, it can't be! It can't be!"
"He was talking so much as well, just for him to be ordinary, no surge at all. Now he and the girl without a leg can have a chat about how bad each other's deaths were."
"I hate you."
"Don't be so mad. After all, you're going to be joining them very soon."
"Two Sword Style! 6th-Pack! Light Condensation." That's when Koji's voice boomed and sounded like a god speaking.
"Not this move again..."
"Even if I have to do this to win, I will. You're ten times stronger than me, I know that. However, I will not let you speak about Z in a bad light in any way. With that being said, I found a way to kill you in one blow without even showing myself once."
This kid- This kid- He's done it again his power levels are way beyond his body, it's- it's- 25,000,000. What's with the voice as well? Is he even the same person? Where is he-
"Stop thinking. It's over for you now. Don't think about anything but death. Two Sword Style: Dark Condensation!"
"Dark Cond-" What happens? Why does it feel like I can feel nothing and see nothing, it feels like I'm not where I use to be.
"Don't be alarmed this isn't a Zone. You're simply in a place where light and darkness don't exist. I can't hold this up for too long but with the anger flowing through me, I've well-surpassed levels I'll never hit ever again. Can you feel it?"
Can I feel it? Of course, I can! It's filling this entire area, it's making me feel sick it's in my head, my stomach, everywhere I turn I feel it. This is a power of 30,000,000! How?
"How? How?"
"I don't know how... I don't know anything except for my technique and the urge of death that I want you to experience. I want you to have it so bad you'll be drowning in it. Drowning in it!"
His mind! It's his agony! He's reaching levels he can't because of his agony! He's someone I shouldn't mess with! Whoever taught him this, has been teaching him this for a long time. He's been trained to be a demon! I need to get out of this, whatever this is!
"I pray for you, however."
"Pray?"
"Yes, pray. I pray that the devil is the least bit forgiving because, for your sake, the death you're going to experience is far from the hell and tournament you're going to receive. I can't wait to see you dead."
"I'm. I'm not dying!"
"You wouldn't be dying if you were going against someone forgiving, however.."
That's when Koji came out of the space of nothingness and dashed straight through the body of Don.
"I'm not forgiving... Two Sword Style, Light & Darkness. Final Slash."
The condensation finally lifted itself as the darkness and the light returned to its original states. Koji then pulled out the sword and Don screamed. Don's body felt like it exploded. Guts flying everywhere, some even landing on Koji sliding down his back, his scarred bloody back. Don's screams were screams of someone who was already in hell, someone who had regrets but didn't get to tell them, someone who had a life but didn't appreciate it.
"Die in hel-"
"I'm not dead yet, you bastard!"
He then grabbed Koji with his broken tentacle, and pulled him up in the sky, and started to crush him.
"I know I'm going to die! So why not bring you to your friends as I promised." This was it. Koji couldn't move anymore, the pain from using the moves was simply too much for the energy needed to cut through.
"Sorry, Z and Aza. I'm coming to see you soon." Koji said while his consciousness was going in and out.
"Die, you dumb ki-" That's when a fist went right through Don's head. Blood gushed out from his head even more than before. Then another fist went through his stomach and made a huge hole through his stomach. That's when the fist slid down to his messy, blood, brain matter neck and cut it off.
"Stravinsk-y Sept-e-t: Movement 1 Drill Style! Head Decapitation!" That's when the head fell to the ground and Koji stopped getting squeezed, finally gaining some air and vision.
"I told you, I will get you back. No matter what. Even if it means death."
IN THE FIGHT OF DON VS AZA, KOJI, AND Z; The Undershow
The Undershow WAS TRIUMPHANT
"Z! Are you alright? Z!"
"Ko-ji, I'm sorry. I was barely able to even do that. I'm going to die."
"No, Z please."
"I can't Koji. I wish I could. I love to do more detective work with you guys, I wish I got to do more with you, I've only known you for such a little time but you're someone I would call family. Dam-n, I call all you guys family. I finally got to have one, and now I'm going to die before I could even experience the feel-ing. Tuff luck right?"
"No, Z, please. I could take you to Apollo, he'll know what to do."
"There isn't any time. I had a blast work-ing with you guys, seeing my lost friend again and the best cook I know, seeing that the world is not as cold as I thought it was and that they're good people out there. Tha-nk you for sho-wing me that."
"Stop. Stop talking like you're going to die! You and Aza, I can't lose you both."
"I'm sorry, I don't want to go but I have to, I'm so sorr-y! If Aza lives tell her she is going to be one of the best designers in the world, tell Kingsley that he's grow-n into one of the most mature people I know he's not the same scared boy an-ymore. Pete, to keep making thi-ngs he wants to and not what other peop-le want, tell Dion I'm sorry for not bei-ng the gen-tleman he always wanted but he was alwa-ys cool and him teaching me and making me laugh when I felt hor-rible made me feel so ha-ppy. Oh and that Waffles are always bet-ter!"
"Waffles ar-e better buddy!" Koji said, trying to smile with the dying Z but failing not to cry.
"Oh I'm feeling it now. I don't have much more. I need to hurry this up! Te-ll Alfred that I'm happy he trus-ted me and let me join h-ere, that once he break-s out to always drink tea upside dow-n. For Apollo, tell him that I want to learn so much mo-re from him, not just as a mento-r. He is the only person I would ever call a father, that I would have love-d to have another milkshak-e, or play ball in a fie-ld."
"Z, I-"
"Koji, can I ask one more thing of you? Can you take on my dream and become the strongest? I know it's a crazy dream and it's ridiculous to ask you but, I just want to know that if I leave there is going to be someone strong enough to protect everyone no matter what... Nevermind it was a stupi-"
"I will. I will." Z's face lit up, with pure joy.
"Thank you, Koji."
"Z, what you've done, will never be forgotten. Love you man."
That's when Z's eyes closed and again Koji had to see someone close their eyes with tears and a smile.
"Why? Why do some many good people have to die? Why?" Koji then slammed his hand down on the ground, the bloody, teary ground.
"Why is this world so cold? Why is it so unforgiving? Why? They're smiling when they die!? What type of devils do that? They're apologizing for doing something they think is right. They put their heart and soul into the people they love! They're sitting here telling me how they're sorry for not trying enough!? Why would they think I even care!? It's so frustrating! Did they deserve death for that god? Did they?"
Koji. I can hear you. It's okay, I'm fine with death. The only thing that's bad about dying is not being able to see you guys. Coming from someone who used to get beat up and clowned for not having a family or enough money to have the coolest things or enough friends to play the coolest things.
Kingsley and I used to get harassed, for not having something that was not in my control. It sucks that the world thinks like this, that if someone is different that means they're bad or they should be treated as someone without rights. Sounds stupid right? Like backward logic? That's because it is. But when something is normalized, even if it's wrong it would never be fixed because that's how the world is. There is not a good person in an unfair world.
The thought of an unfair world still goes through my mind, it still goes through my soul. Is it fair to have a world where children won't have parents, where people have to shed tears, that people have to lose others? I would ask those same questions, did someone deserve something even though they're a good person? That's something I still won't have an answer to, something I'm going to ask god if there is one.
What am I even saying at this point? Am I distracting myself from the pain? Or is it my thoughts that I always think of being amplified because of death? I don't even know.. I don't know anything anymore.
Thank you, everyone. I'll see you guys later when your time has also come.
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