The Crisis World XX

Chap. 148: Room and Door

The baram?! I've heard his name. On a mission to be a bodyguard in Nagoya two years ago. I heard one of us was also fighting him and he ended up with severe injuries all over his body.

But to see it in person, this is my first time. And he's big crazy, oi! What the fuck is this man? I didn't know that a normal human could grow to nearly three feet tall, unless he had a genetic disorder or something.

And most people who grow up like him have problems when standing or walking, but that doesn't seem to be a problem at all. A real fighter, huh? Someone Nigiyaka-san acknowledged directly, let's see how the two of us can defend against him.

"Did you generously want to tell me who sent you to kill me?" ask Baram.

"I can't say it, it's against the agreement." Reply Nigiyaka-san briefly.

"so. I've left that side of the world long enough, after losing to someone two years ago in Nagoya, I decided to go out and step aside for a while."

This guy out? So he's not part of the Assassin world anymore? A feeling of relief that came from nowhere suddenly appeared on my chest, why could it? Maybe it is also my hope in myself so that someday I can also get out of this world.

But if an Assassin decides to quit or retire, then ....

"out? Then you're ready to face the consequences?"

"Yes, there are already some people coming."

As Nigiyaka-san said, if someone comes out then he should be prepared to bear the consequences. The retired Assassin would become a fugitive from the other Assassins and his head became precious, it was already an unwritten rule in the Assassin world.

Making one have no other choice but to fight for the rest of his life. Truly the most scumbag deal the bastards have ever thought of.

But strangely frivolous, an innocent little girl went to hell just because she needed money fast. Talk about being an idiot. Talking about the stupidity of the little girl made me only able to smile.

But as he said, some people came to kill him. I can't predict what those fools have in mind, of course they don't have the slightest chance against it.

By the way, he said he lost to someone two years ago in Nagoya. Wasn't that when Black Rain went on a mission to become a Rainbow Cookies bodyguard? Means there was someone — most likely one of us, who managed to defeat him.

"Two years ago? What defeated you is someone from Black Rain?!" my many.

"Black Rain's? No, not ...."

Not one of us? But as I recall, the biggest event two years ago in Nagoya was a riot at a Rainbow Cookies concert.

"... A dirty sneak, I can't feel a knight's soul at all inside him. But I lost to his dirty tricks." His eyes shot down and his hands clenched. I could feel a deep look of vengeance on the glare of his eyes.

"After I got out of the way, I decided to open this bar. Originally just to apply what Ivis had taught me about cooking, but some Assassins came to try to kill me and failed."

"What happened to them?"

I gave a flat look at Nigiyaka-san's question to Baram. Are you serious, Nigiyaka-san? Of course those careless people died.

"Some of it I killed on the spot, but .. some of it joined me."

Our eyes are both wide. I'm sure it's something that rarely happens here, recruiting assassins who try to kill you to your side.

"Are you serious?"

"The boss doesn't lie." The glasses guy chimed in.

"Eh?"

"Because I'm — Ruler, was one of the Assassins who joined the Boss after trying to kill him."

It turned out that this bespectacled person was an Assassin! Though his appearance is no better than an office worker, if you refer to the proportion of his body that has almost no muscles.

His nickname is Ruler. What the fuck? A measuring instrument? Not cool at all.

"Ruler, then the one who interrogated you, Cupid, was the one who sided with me after trying to kill me. I just want to open a bar and get people to taste what I've learned from Ivis."

His revenge disappeared. Now he looked up, towards the only light source in the room. This time his gaze was filled with eyes of hope, hoping for something far away, which might just be impossible to achieve.

But Baram continued to look at and crave it nonstop. Then it stopped, and the focus came back to us. Seeing that, Nigiyaka-san could only smile thinly and leave us all confused.

"Is there something funny?" ask Baram.

"No, it looks like we've both lost our knightly souls. Me for treason, while you're for hope."

Baram was surprised, his eyes widened. But he could understand Nigiyaka-san's intentions and an arch was created at the tip of his lips. "Eitherway. But a knight will embrace his ideology until he dies" he continued.

"Yes, I do too."

Unexpected. A casual conversation took place when we were going to kill each other. I then rethink their relationship. Fellow, huh? They were two people who could exchange laughter for each other under any circumstances.

But all the laughter and casual chatter disappeared as quickly as he came. The faces of the two of them were now much more serious and his aura became extremely intimidating to anyone who could sense it.

"I won't hold back, Nimis."

"Don't think without my Katana, you can kill me easily, Baram."

They both started putting up horses. The horses of Nimis are different without their katana. "Focus, Dantalion." And he always warned me not to lose focus.

"Good."

"Do you know getting out of here is almost impossible?" baram.

"You said that too? I just have to beat you two up and think of a way to get out of here."

"If so, you will be the first. Because I'm invincible here."

Baram clenched his hand. A huge amount of energy was concentrated in his fist, like hinting that we shouldn't lose focus and get hit.

"Ruler, are you ready?"

"When you're ready, Boss."

"In that case, I'll do it quickly."

He started to move and darted very quickly, making our eyes both widen. One sec? A half? No, even faster than that. The distance of nearly ten meters was instantly narrowed at a crazy speed, and he was eyeing straight at Nigiyaka-san's face.

That crazy speed kept me from reacting, when I realized, all I could digest was that Baram was already beside me and Nigiyaka-san was bouncing hard against the wall.

"Ap—?!"

There is no time to be surprised! Now Baram turned his attention to me. I instantly created an air drill in both my hands and attacked it with hand-to-hand martial arts.

The punches and kicks kept me going and Baram just dodged without effort. The air drill that coated the punch I created so that the area of the punch was wider, then also pierced the enemy's body more easily.

But it's free if it doesn't.

Even if nothing hit, and my arm was captured which made me unable to go anywhere. The grip of this three-meter man is too strong for me! Even the air drill seemed to have not injured him at all.

He raised another free hand and prepared to hit me. It's grim! If it was exposed directly, I could lose consciousness for a while. Lothawat! Lothawat! Lothawat! Even though I knew it was coming, there wasn't much I could do.

A big enough fire attack suddenly came between the two of us — being my savior, before his punch could reach me. The direction is from ... Nigiyaka-san! It seems to be conscious. And he managed to save me at the very last moment.

The surprise fire attack earlier made Baram let go of my hand and jumped back, while I approached Nigiyaka-san. His condition was quite messy, the hand that had previously spouted flames trembled and his mouth spat out fresh blood.

"You okay, Nimis?!"

"The speed is unnatural."

"Eh?"

"He's fast, but he's just a little bit faster than Ardenter and I can still follow him. In two years to be this fast? I refuse to believe, there must be something at his speed," muttered Nigiyaka-san.

It does. His speed was unbelievable, but what if it was indeed his true strength? Is there anything we can do? Are we just going to curse in our hearts? No, his speed must have a weakness.

"Not to worry." I started talking.

"You got anything?"

"No, but as soon as possible we have to overcome his speed. After all our views are automatically wider than her because we are two people, so let's protect each other's blind spots."

Nigiyaka-san was silent in her agreement. That's all we can do, rather than assuming things aren't clear, we'd better do what we can. Nigiyaka-san then stood beside me and set her breath — I also did the same.

"Oh? You guys want to fight back?"

But we ignored the question, because the answer was already very clear. "Although without Katana, keep doing as you practice" ordered Nigiyaka-san.

"I understand."

My body was now enveloped by a wind shawl that surrounded me gently. I purposely shaped it into a shawl shape, because it is the most effective and useful form of defense and attack.

While Nigiyaka-san changed some things from what we used to do in training. Now he creates a fire that he can hold, the length of the fire is about two-thirds of the handle — Nigiyaka-san makes Katana from his fire.

I don't know how effective it was, but Iraya-kun also used to make similar things before he had a grip on his sword. Although he continued to complain of heat or pain when holding it.

"You ready?"

"Yes." Yeah."

We shot simultaneously, Baram also did not want to lose and immediately replied to him. He went back to eyeing Nigiyaka-san with his punch. But Nigiyaka-san made an unexpected move, she instead slashed her fire sword at me which gave me a bowing reflex.

The slash I thought would slash the wind after bowing, even making a loud noise as if it hit something.

"You're guessing my moves?"

I could hear Baram's voice beside me, whereas he had previously tried to attack Nigiyaka-san. Again the crazy speed he showed. And whether by luck or experience from Nigiyaka-san, he managed to guess Baram's attack while saving me.

"Remember we've been together long enough!"

Nigiyaka-san hit him away from me and he also went straight to him. Baram did not let go of it, he served every attack that Nigiyaka-san gave so well that it made the fight look balanced.

Seen?

Hehe ... Pretty arrogant words for me to say.

Because now my eyes could barely keep up with the movements of the two of them. The smoldering flames that followed in each of Nigiyaka-san's attacks made me at least be able to guess what happened there. But the rest, gray.

A few minutes passed and the attack trade and trade fights still continued to occur between them. I chose to be quiet. There was no gap for me to enter, my feeling was that if I interfered, I would only be an obstacle.

"Ugh ...!!"

"Nymiss!"

Slowly but surely Nigiyaka-san began to be repulsed by Baram, and his speed was also indeed troublesome from the start. And in the end, he bounced because Baram's kick went straight into his stomach.

Luckily I was able to catch it before Nigiyaka-san hit another hard object here. He vomited more blood than before, hinting that the attack had just hit his internal organs.

"Nimit! Hang in!"

"You are strong, Nimis. But without Katana and Ardenter by your side, it's obvious that if you lose something important in the fight, no one can deny it."

"Maybe ..you're right." Nigiyaka-san was still trying to answer even though every word that came out of her mouth always came out with blood.

"Don't talk first, please. Your wounds may get worse" I asked.

But he didn't listen to me. He continued his words with fatigue. "But even if my condition is not perfect like this, I can still uncover the secret of your speed."

"What?"

A grin came out of his mouth. "That guy is the secret, right?" Then he pointed to the male glasses — Ruler, who had been watching our fight. Ruler was also surprised that she was suddenly appointed by Nigiyaka-san.

"What do you mean?" ask Ruler.

"Don't pretend to be stupid. The aura that had indeed from the beginning already controlled this place suddenly doubled and then disappeared again."

Nigiyaka-san stood up with a hint of fatigue and faced Ruler to prove that her hypothesis was correct.

"And his aura is very similar to yours. That way ... The secret of Baram's speed is you."

Silence happens for a while. Ruler still showed her surprised face, while Nigiyaka-san and I were still waiting for her response.

I really did not follow Nigiyaka-san's words from earlier. Because I was too focused on how to beat Baram and overcome his speed. Reveal the secret of his speed? Not thinking at all!

But then he reacted. With a sly grin and applause.

"Congratulations. The top Assassin was indeed great, being able to guess at it almost exactly with very few clues. Yes, it is true ... Boss is already very fast, but thanks to my ability, I made it to be faster — no, maybe the more appropriate word is to move his position to where I want."

My eyes widened as he revealed his strength. And not only did his strength get there, he also still had other secrets.

"But it cannot be done haphazardly. I need the right place to do it, like for example a room made of my aura."

"What?! So you mean—!"

"I named this Unique Skill 'Room And Door'. As long as that person is inside my 'Room', I can move that person like opening a 'Door' for him to where I want to be while inside the 'Room'."

Unique Skill again. A fraudulent ability that I don't understand at all. Its user could turn things around as long as he had it. God fucking.

"People who've entered into 'Room' can't get out of here before I allow it. It may be fragile from the outside, but I've been hiding it in a secret place. And if it's from the inside, 'Room' won't be destroyed!"

I get it now. When we passed out we were brought here and it was at the root of all the problems. Moreover, he told his nurse. That meant he was already confident of his victory. If I were him, maybe I would do the same.

But that means we're in big trouble, huh? How'this? Nigiyaka-san was already injured while I was not sure that my own strength could bring about such a huge change. It's really bad.

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