Demons Battle

Did I lose?

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The very moment Sora touched Gabriel’s hand everything changed. Gabriel immediately felt this strange feeling. It was strange in the sense that it was a feeling that he had never felt before but it was an unknown feeling that felt rather good. It felt more like an inner void in him was immediately filled. A void he never knew he had in the first place. It was crazy but at that moment he felt rather complete.

Not letting himself get lost in his current thrilled feeling, He instantly regained his sense of urgency, now that he was given the power to teleport he had to act fast because there was only a minute left before the plane traveler skill finally runs out.

The plane traveler skill. The fact Gabriel miraculously got power was because of this Sora’s skill. If the time for this skill runs out without knocking out Arata, there’s no doubt about it. They would automatically lose this fight.

So it really was a matter of urgency and Gabriel knew this.

The moment he moved his hand, he instantly felt a surge of energy moving through his body.  The energy was so great that he immediately staggered on his feet, swaying a little. The world spun in his eyes for a second which had his sense of direction disturbed. Just like that  he stiffened and stopped. In that moment of realization he asked.

‘...by the..way how do I even teleport?’

It was a question that sounded ridiculous to even himself. He felt so silly and dumb to be even asking such a question in this situation and directly asking Sora about it felt even more stupid. How’s he supposed to ask such a question now? Even if he swallows his pride, asking Sora this question could distract them now at this very moment but still his situation didn’t change.

He has never teleported once in his life so how’s he going to do that now. It was more like a case where a child doesn’t know how to walk yet. The fact he was currently feeling the power didn’t tell him exactly what to do next. So Gabriel hesitated.

‘I feel the great energy just from the slightly twitching my fingers. Just even attempting to even move any part of my body causes this strange disturbance. It’s as if there’s a huge tank of water inside me that’s greatly disturbed by just even a slight movement. Shit! This situation feels more like that moment. If that’s the case then I have to be more careful while trying to figure this out’

Gabriel was so disturbed. He recalled the first time he tried using his Explosive-burst ability. It was a total mess. He accidentally destroyed the three walls inside the research facility. He had no idea what to do at time just like how he was feeling right now. A slip-up like that in the case of him using his enhanced ability for the first time was not something he could afford at the moment.

‘What should I do?’

It was a question in his mind that needed urgent answer right now but there was a problem. The fact he was just standing still and thinking about him wasn’t helping him in anyway. Yes he doesn’t know what to do but he won’t magically get the answer by just standing still. Time was not their friend at the moment so he had to act.

‘Okay Let’s try this again’

Gabriel moved slowly by watching his steps. Right now he was cautiously reluctant to cause any mess by accidentally losing control in anyway. Such a mistake could result in an instant lost. Gabriel knew he had to be careful. The more he moved the more strange he felt. His new current energy came with some strange and unusual feelings.

There was a sudden hunger but it was a hunger that felt rather good. It wasn’t a hunger that needed the in-take of any food or substances. It was a hunger of release rather than in-take.  Anytime he moved slightly there was this sudden need to let himself be release but what was this release about?

He felt this strange embrace from the air more like a wind and at this same time there was no wind in the area. There was this sudden surge of air going through his body like a cooling mechanism.

He was suddenly baffled. ‘ Where is this wind coming from?’

-You can feel it right?

‘Huh?’ Gabriel immediately heard Sora’s voice but his question now was ‘How’s Sora currently talking?’

He’s currently staring at Sora and there’s no movement in Sora’s lips so how...

‘Wait is he talking in my mind?’

Sora Immediately smiled and gave him a nod.

‘I can see it’s really like that’

-It’s alright. You’re trying to control it. Just flow with it. Become one with the wind.

‘Become one with the wind..’ Gabriel hesitated while trying his best to understand the statement. This was his first time he was feeling like a powered human so at this moment he was really like a child learning how to walk.

He was so self cautious in trying to keep his surging feeling of power at bay but he felt more compared to let his consciousness drift with the power and since Sora said it’s okay then it’s okay. That was all the permission he needed so what was left was for him to see if letting himself to go to his current power will bring out the needed result.

In that moment Gabriel belatedly closed his eyes to grasp his current feeling but in doing that he felt something more. He felt the extension of his mind. He felt this feeling of stillness and movements. Was it weird? He felt like he was currently standing still and at the same time he felt himself moving but his movements were a bit confined.

There was suddenly this blurred vision of the ground which had some sort of obstructions all around. No the obstructions were walls. Now speaking about it he suddenly realized, from the dimensions of the ground and the wall. This was definitely the tunnel. He instantly felt this oneness with the environment. He was now one with his surrounding.

His eyes quickly met with Arata’s gaze the moment he opened them back again.

Arata was directly glaring at him. ‘Was he staring at me with contempt?’ He asked. No there’s no need, it was an answer to a question he didn’t need because right now he was about to do what he said he will do. For the very first time...

‘I feel like I can do anything’

Gabriel immediately immersed himself in his strange feeling as he felt his body becoming formless. It was a feeling of complete power. He wondered ‘Does Sora feel like this when he uses his power every single time?’

In that moment he felt himself floating in the air. His awareness was currently everywhere. He could currently see all of them from a bird’s eye view. He saw Sora, Agatha, and Arata.  They all had a common perplexed reactions except for Sora. In that moment it was as if time stopped.

-Now choose where you want to go?

He immediately glanced towards Sora. Sora was just frozen in time a few seconds ago just like the rest but at this moment now Sora was now already moving in midst of the stillness of time.

In that instant Sora vanished from Gabriel’s eye view.

-Come on choose where you wanna go...

Gabriel heard Sora’s voice once more. In this moment he wanted to smile but he couldn’t there was no feeling of a smile or rather there was no mouth, no face and not even a body. Right now he was entirely formless. After his realization Gabriel belatedly replied Sora.

-No I don’t just want to go somewhere. I want to do something...I want to punch the fucking hell out of this guy!

-You need a hand?

-Sure.

-Alright we’ll go in three. Just visualize what you want to do.

-Three...

-Two...

In that moment Gabriel felt his gaze coming back to a normal human eye view.  It was no longer the bird’s eye view. In that moment he also felt this warmth feeling.

-One...

And the next thing he saw was Arata. He was already standing in front of Arata to be precise. With that right now he could smile. He could feel his smile again.

Now the remaining thing was his fist. He still could not feel his fist. He glanced at his hands to see he had no fist. His arm was not complete. He consciously realized that he became nothing for a moment and now his body was currently taking back form again.

-Wait give it a while..

Sora said from his right side. Sora was already standing beside him.

-Now!

In that moment he again felt his fingers. There was only one thing remaining to do. He briskly clenched his fist.

‘Can I use explosives burst?’

‘I didn’t activate it early but this much power will still do’

Gabriel’s fist started heating up. In that moment the flow of time felt normal again.

The instant the flow of time became normal again he quickly noticed Arata’s pupil moving as he got closer.

‘Shit! this guy can still react at this pace but still it doesn’t matter whether you react or not I’m still going to land this punch!”

“Hahhh!!!”

Both Gabriel and Sora screamed as they pressed forward. They immediately concentrated all the energy their body could  gathered at the moment to their fists.

Arata quickly saw through their attack. He swiftly tried to counteract both their attack. He was fast...

‘..but we’re faster!!!’

Both Gabriel’s and Sora’s fist clashed on his abdomen. The action of their fists immediately created an equal reaction of air blast as Arata’s body was shot backwards.

“Kwacck!”

The impact of their blows were so strong that Arata vomited blood while he was still in air.

Agatha stood in total shock with her eyes wide open not just her the whole audience were in shock too.

“I thought the robotic kid was a regular human?”

“It’s the same thing I thought too. I thought he was one of those regular humans who got the government enhancement”

“Who could tell he had powers?”

“And him and the other kid have the same power too”

The whole audience were all coming up with their own assumptions while Machia, Tom and John were watching shocked as well.

“Did he just use teleportation?” John asked

“...I still can’t believe it.” Tom said with disbelief.

‘What the hell is going on here?’ Machia was still attentively staring at the scene.

Arata fell to the ground. He lay flat on the ground. Gabriel and Sora kept an alert to see if he would get back up because Arata has always been always been a stubborn bastard so far but still a few seconds has passed and there was still no sign of him getting back up. Was he unconscious?

“Hey hey hey Arata wake up!”

Arata’s king was shivering. He immediately started backing away slowly. There’s no doubt it looking back from the beginning of this fight till now, this guy had his faith on Arata but right now from the way things are, having faith doesn’t always give the expected outcome.

“I don’t care if he’s unconscious or not. Now’s the time to get this guy king!” Agatha screamed.

In that moment Sora and Gabriel quickly went after the king.

“Hey stay away!!!”

Like before there was immediately another burst of wind repelling both of them away.

“Alright! now that this guy is out of commission I can freely use my telekinesis”

Agatha smiled as she stretched out her right hand towards the direction of Arata’s king.

“Come to mama!”

The king was immediately pulled out of the low grade hurricane. His body was flying the air against his will.

In that moment there was not doubt anymore. This was Group C’s win.

***

Huh?

Why’s everywhere so dark? And my body feels heavy too? Was I knocked out? No it can’t be. I’ve worked too hard to get here. I can’t lose. Much less to those two.

{Hey you deep shit!}

*Bam*

{Beat him!}

*Bam*Bam*Bam*

Huh?...

I’m i dreaming?

Why am a I seeing this all of a sudden? No this is not a dream. I remember this. This group of kids. The close river. This place. There’s no doubt. This is back home.

{Hey deep shit! The fact you can read people’s mind doesn’t mean anything you’re just too weak}

*Bam*

I vividly remembered this scene. Was it because of the punch I received from that particular kid? Either way I remembered hating all those kids at that time. Day by day i was always running away from them to avoid a beating. Even though I was a powered human I was always running away from them.

It turns out that I was only born with the ability to read minds and nothing else. At that time my ability was pretty much useless because there were other kids with super strength and other cool powers.

My problems didn’t just end there. I was hated by almost everyone in my low class district. Reason being, nobody actually likes the fact that another person can read their mind because of this I was lonely.

Why am i even remembering this in the first place?

These are memories I want to forget.

{Arata-Kun}

Everything suddenly became blank again as I heard the voice of a girl. I know this voice.

Just like that an image materialized in my vision.

{Arata-kun}

She was beautiful girl with long brown hair. A tall girl at that. At the moment she was looking at me from above. Was I on my knees? She was also smiling too and at this same my heart was racing.

I still can’t tell what’s going on here but I know this girl. She’s someone I can’t possibly forget.

After all she’s the main reason why I have this Title the ‘Mind Reader Of The Strongest Five’.

“Akari Ito”