The Crisis World XX

Chap. 114: Self-Esteem Duel

*Night Before Black Rain Departures to Nagoya*

In the bunk house where the Assassins were temporarily staying, they were in time to do nothing. All they could do was wait for the potion Seana made to finish.

He is believed to be taking part in the mission this time because of his ability to concoct potions. Seana was more confident when dealing with drugs than in combat.

They gave him a room of their own so that he could focus on concocting the potion. But even so, it has been a few days Seana tried various compositions of ingredients, but still no one satisfied her.

But today seems different.

A few days back, Seana did not leave the room and forgot the time because she was too focused. He even got late to eat and several times almost fell unconscious due to an empty stomach.

Dillon who had been her servant since Seana was little was of course worried and decided to accompany Seana in the room until she succeeded.

Someone then went inside and caught Dillon—'s attention that person was Astaroth. He stood beside Dillon watching Seana who was in high focus and did not care about the people around her.

"Are you worried?" ask Astaroth.

"I'm sorry?"

"About Seana, he seems to be working pretty hard."

"Ah about that, I was always worried about her in every way. But he continued to argue by saying, 'Don't treat me like a child, Dillon!' or something like that."

"I think I can imagine it" Astaroth said with a small smile on the tip of his lips.

"Even so I believe one thing ...." Dillon's eyes sharply fixed on Seana as if very sure of her. "... Although Seana-sama is not very good at fighting, but I am sure she will become great in her own way."

"Finally!"

Seana's shout surprised Dillon and Astaroth a little. A relieved and happy smile could be seen on his tired face as he looked towards Dillon and Astaroth.

"I finally managed to create it!"

"Congratulations, Seana-sama. I'm sure you'll make it."

"Hehe! Sure thing!"

Astaroth then took a close look at Seana's artificial potion. The color is white and the texture is like fine sugar, without smell and easily soluble in water.

"Dillon! Get me a glass of water, then wake the others up!"

"Well, Seana-sama!"

Seana wanted to test her creation in front of everyone because this also risked her pride. After a week of confining himself, he finally dared to show it in front of the others.

After a while, finally everything came. All of them include the Delta that just arrived a few days ago.

"Hoaamm-n .... What's calling us all this blind morning?" said Lennova who was still wearing her pajamas and rubbed her eyes because she just woke up.

"Hehe! The potion has been finished and I will show it directly in front of all of you at this time!"

"Seana-sama. This is the water you asked for." Dillon then came up with a glass of water in his grasp and directly gave it to Seana.

"Thank you, Dillon."

"By pleasure!"

Seana then poured her homemade potion into the white water. The potion dissolved into the water and when Seana stirred it several times with a spoon, the potion dissolved perfectly.

"Wah ... really dissolved perfectly," said Lennova amazed.

"So far it's gone well." Seana noticed the water she was in her grasp right now. He swallowed his dry saliva hoping that in his little heart the potion would work and then drank it.

"A-Does it work, Seana-sama?" ask Dillon.

"I don't know." Seana then looked towards Lennova and pointed at her. "You, Lennova! You'll kneel before me!"

"E-Eh?"

Lennova was worried because she became the subject of Seana's sudden experiment, but her worry slowly faded when after a few minutes there was no change in Lennova.

"I ... am still conscious?"

"Ga .. gal?"

Lennova examined her own body and realized that nothing had changed. "Oi! Don't make me your experiment, dong!" Lennova.

But Seana did not listen to Lennova's protests. He still did not believe it because the potion he had considered a hundred percent successful even failed miserably. The atmosphere became awkwardly silent and Seana started the conversation after a while.

"I'm sorry, I interrupted your sleep just for nothing. You can sleep again, I still have work to do."

"Seana-sama."

Dillon realizes that whatever he says won't help Seana, so she chooses silence. But not with Astaroth, he sighed and then approached Seana.

"Huh .. This is proof that you're still naive."

"Uncle ...?"

"You're doing it plainly and in a hurry, you know."

"Plain .. and rush?"

"Try to flow your aura all over your body and think calmly about what you want to do."

Seana obeyed Astaroth's words and then repeated them again. He closed his eyes and then stared intently at Lennova.

"??!!!" Lennova slightly flinched and her body slowly lowered its head then started kneeling to Seana.

Everyone was shocked when Lennova actually knelt down following the orders from Seana. That meant the potion he had made had worked. Although after that Lennova immediately separated from his influence.

"I succeeded! You saw that, right?! Dillon, Uncle!"

"certain. I see it clearly."

"In this way, the plan will definitely be a great success. Because the one who's gonna wear it is you, right, Uncle?"

"No, not the boss."

"Eh?"

Lennova stood back up even though she felt a little dizzy and was still holding her head. He tried to stand up from his kneeling position. "Geez, I didn't think I was really affected. But like I said just now, it's not the boss who's going to drink it" he continued.

"So, who's going to drink it?"

"The Idols. Out of those five people I got information that there was one person who was an Exception, so I'm going to use it."

"But why use them?"

"The first reason is that we don't need to involve the Boss in this mission, as he is still recovering. The second is that their concerts are watched almost all over Japan, so the one that will be affected is this one country."

"But the radius of my ability can't be that wide. Perhaps the most extensive is just this town."

"that, huh? It was a pity but still quite good, as this was one of the areas of Kuni no Hashira members. This will have a pretty big impact on them."

"Kuni no Hashira?"

"It was the largest Exception organization in Japan. Black Rain who was my organization used to go inside, but ever since I died, I heard they took him out of there. That fucking Ryuzaki," Oita-san replied.

Even though they are already in the same team, they are both still vigilant and do not trust each other.

"Why are we making plans like this?"

"It's obvious, isn't it? Because it strains and makes your heart beat. It's just another game I've made, so just look forward to the exciting things in it." Lennova grinned in response to Seana's question.

And after testing the potion successfully, they went back to sleep and Seana made the same potion again. The Assassin preparations were almost complete.

**

*Return to Current*

Back to when I heard the knocking on the door when I wanted to take a nap. I walked over to check who was the one who disturbed my precious sleep.

"Who the hell is—Eh?"

The man I never thought was standing at my door at this moment. With a stature higher than mine and a more muscular body, he looked down with a serious gaze.

"You-you ... Oukami?"

Yep. It was Oukami Yuu. I don't know what the purpose of coming here is but he seems to be unhappy, there was no smile coming out of his mouth at the moment and there seemed to be no intention to buy me a meal or anything like that, because for the mission to start it was still around two days away.

"W-What are you doing here?"

"...."

No answer from him. The atmosphere was very awkward at the moment and there should be someone breaking this atmosphere. But luckily it was Oukami who broke it.

"Follow me." But the way he broke it was very strange and he went straight away without going into my room just yet.

He seems to want to take me somewhere. "Eh?" It was the only reaction I could give him because of the random attitude he showed at the moment.

"And don't forget to bring your gun."

"Ha ...?" I really don't understand what he means. So I'm still standing at my door right now looking at him who's starting to walk away.

"What the hell is he?"

"I think you should go with him" said Cecilia.

"Huh?! Didn't you see that he was very suspicious? What if he's planning something bad for me?"

"If that's true, you can run away right away, right? Just follow what he wants."

"Why are you the toughest one, anyway? I'm kan—"

"Oi. Why are you whispering from earlier? Is anyone there?"

"That .. no .. there are people, really. Hehe."

Although he was suspicious, Oukami did not take it any further and walked back. While I was alone after being forced by Cecilia, I finally followed her will—Of course with Tetsu's sword.

We then walked out of the hotel and into White Cloud—'s office but did not enter through the front door, but circled the building and entered an underground gate that looked like a parking lot.

But I was wrong.

This place is far from what is called a parking lot. More towards an arena made of concrete and concrete pillars as a support for the roof of this place.

Oukami then stopped walking and turned his back when we were already in the middle of the arena and a few meters away. Wait a minute .... I don't know why I don't feel good.

"Satou Iraya's. I brought you here to challenge you to a duel!"

I was right! God fucking. It turns out that he still holds a grudge against me, even though in the tournament yesterday he had won. "Tu-wait a minute, Oukami Yuu-san. Did I not hear wrong?"

"No. I really want to ask you to re-duel."

Of course, yes. "But why? Wasn't it you who won the game? Why did you bother to repeat?"

"In the last moment of the match, I felt that I had lost to you and wanted to shout 'I gave up' ...."

He wanted to give up at that time. If only I had lasted about a minute longer, maybe I wouldn't be here now. Waitie? But he's here for revenge. Argh! Goddamnit! I was destined to fight with him. Fucking fate!

"... But since you fainted, that's why I can win from you. And of course I don't accept such a dirty win!"

"Well ..he's very troublesome," I said flatly.

"It looks like he's the type of person who has high self-esteem" Cecilia continued.

I think so too. But I was the laziest to meet the kind of person like him, I would never stop dealing with him until he was satisfied.

"Then I give up." I try to raise my hand and give up.

"Can't! I won't let you go until I get the results I want!"

"Rushing doesn't work either. Yes ... even though I expected it, anyway."

"Then ...."

Oukami began to gather his aura and formed a spear with the tip of a dagger and shield in his right and left hand. Not only that, he also made a armor of aura with the Domaru— model of the Japanese samurai armor that covered his entire body.

"... I'm starting!"

"What the fuck?! I've never seen him do this before?!"

Zwuush... Triying...

Oukami darted quickly straight at me and thrust his spear into my stomach, lucky I still had time to pull my sword from its sheath and deflect a little towards it so that it thinly shot to the side of my waist.

I jumped backwards to keep my distance.

"Oi! You're going to kill me, aren't you?! That was dangerous, you know! Then what the hell is that aura armor?!"

"After winning the One tournament, I trained harder to create something I could wear as a protector. And I managed to create this armor!"

He's a fool, isn't he?! We still have a mission in two days and he's taking me on a duel now. But even escaping seemed free, there was no one here but the two of us and it seemed like he had already locked the exit.

"What a wish, this one muscle brain," I murmured.

"How now?" ask Cecilia.

"There's no other choice. I was tired from travel and lack of sleep. Hah .. What a matter I am."

I then mounted the horses and poured my aura into my hands, feet, and eyes, and did not forget also to Tetsu's sword. Looks like I have to seriously fight this person with high self-esteem.

"Tetsu, can you hear me?"

"Strong and clear! But you seem to be out of luck, aren't you, Iraya?"

"Yes how else, but for now we will fight it. Are you ready, Tetsu?!"

"Of course!"

This time I'm ready. And it looks like I will make her satisfied and will not interfere with my life again after this.

Seriate