Sora flew towards Adrik at supersonic speeds, his flames whistling with fury behind him. Adrik, still in his gruesome form, spotted one more human near by in one of the wrecked buildings. His veiny tendril went flying and impaled the man, pumping them full of his blood.
"Transmutate!"
The man melted into veiny fleshy mass that Adrik quickly molded into a gruesome, molten, purple veiny transmutated human and flung it towards Sora. "Oho~ looks like someone wants to play with our samurai~", Adrik giggled as the body went flying towards Sora.
Sora was still flying towards Adrik, floating over the Habukicho street. His eyes widened in shock at the fast paced body coming towards him. "Fuck! I'd vomit if I want to but what the hell is that! It has no eyeballs and is literally a melted almost anthropomorphic human! I'm sorry, kind person... But I have to end you," Sora thought to himself as he stopped himself mid air and swung his flame sword from top to bottom, in an arc, right in time as the body bisected into two. Sora kept a serious expression his eyes never leaving Adrik's. Blood splattered everywhere on the either side of the street.
Adrik clapped his hands. "Bravo! Bravo indeed~ if this was some PPA Junior Agent, they'd have hesitated... They'd have thought that they could save this poor soul and when they do, the transmutated flesh would melt them with it~ but you are different~ you don't hesitate to kill... You're just like me!", Adrik bravoed his hands clapping and echoing all around the area. Sora scoffed spitting at the ground. "I'm nothing like you, fool! I've fought countless wars for my clan... I've slayed hundreds if not thousands of eclipses as I traversed through the lands... I don't hesitate to kill danger...", Sora rebuked as he gripped his flaming sword even tighter.
Adrik nodded, his hairs bouncing up and down. His cheeky smile was irritating to Sora. "How quaint~ I'd dismember you if I could but Lord Nakamura wouldn't allow that... Now...", Adrik said lightly his expression getting a bit more serious rather than playful. He blitzed towards Sora with another airburst behind him. Sora stepped back in shock. Adrik used his six crab extensions from his back with sharp claws at the end to pummel Sora. Sora immediately replied to the incoming strikes with his flamming sword.
Fire embers flew everywhere. Sounds of cracks and squelches filled the air as Adrik and Sora went at it, both going all out in their flurry of attacks. As Sora's katana made contacts with his claws, it withered the fleshy matter and since the two were fighting at high speeds, each contact, due to friction and heat of his flames degraded the claws again and again until.
Adrik pulled back, his head snapping to the side to inspect his extensions. They didn't even regenerate. Adrik, his expression shocked thought to himself mid battle, "Wait... Usually my injuries would heal within a second... What's going on-"
Before Adrik could finish, he looked back at Sora and saw Sora's dead pan focused expression. He was upside down in the air. Sora's arms held his flame katana, his blade near Adrik's head. "Surprised? Well I'm not the strongest swordsman for no reason... Each of my cuts were precise and cut your cells precisely to slow your regeneration. And my Flames? They added onto that... Now take this to your grave!", Sora's voiced boomed as he yell the last word his blade cutting between Adrik's lower and upper jaw like butter before fully cutting it off in one swift motion.
Sora backflipped mid air before landing on his feet. Adrik's body went limp and his almost headless body went landing on his knees. Blood gushed and sprinkled the air coming right from the severed arteries and veins at the neck which are important to any human. His voice gurgled from the blood choking his wind pipe. Sora looked back before walking away, each step scorching the road behind him. He wasn't sad about this. One less evil in this world.
Suddenly, Adrik's body began groaning and making incoherent groans. Large veins popped around his neck as they began to pump full of blood. Adrik roared incoherently, the air pushing Sora back a bit, his hair flying back over his forehead from the sheer force of Adrik's rage.
In half a second, Adrik's skull structure began to regenerate. In a quarter of a second, his eyes filled his socket. In another quarter, his flesh and veins surrounded his skull and then at another half second, his skin wrapped around it and his mess yellow hair grew out from his fresh scalp.
"YOU THINK THAT WAS ENOUGH TO KILL ME! WRONG!", Adrik yelled maniacally his kaleidoscope right eye spinning round and round in frevor. However Sora didn't waste a second and suddenly he dashed towards Adrik and began to slice his entire body into pieces.
SLASH! CRACK! CRUSH!
Bones cracked, flesh squelched and fire whizzed as Sora split Adrik's body into hundreds of fleshy balls flying in the air. Organs and eyes spewing out. Adrik's free eye, the one that fell out of his socket gazed at Sora in rage before his pupils dilated. Everything went into slow motion.
"Abyssal Flames:
Thermobaric Explosion!",
Sora pointed his palm towards Adrik's minced body in the air. The heat from his hand began to melt the concrete of the street. Sora was just about to launch the attack. The destructive sparks in his palm reflecting back at Adrik's eye.
However, Sora was still recovering his true strength. He was going to use a much more powerful blast than before in the cavern underneath Minato City. The reality is, Sora had split the atoms in the air alongside Adrik's flesh through his sheer precision. This increased the surface area making the surrounding area more prone to blowing up from Sora's attack.
But the attack never came. Sora's body went limp and collapsed on the ground. He was using a technique that was yet to be regained. He was just at 1/5th of his power. Yet he had managed to show Adrik death herself.
His sword diminished in the air. Sora had exhausted. His Reserves though the greatest ever recorded were not even near his full strength. Similarly, his efficiency was also 1/5th of his true perfection, so he burned through his reserves aswell.
Adrik's flesh particles immediately clamped back together into a heaping pile of fleshy veiny mess that throbbed and throbbed until it finally regenerated into Adrik's original body. He sighed. A sigh of relief. He was naked. His body glimmered under the neon lights but he didn't care about his nudity. They had won Sora.
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Meanwhile, few city blocks away, Victor's body twitched on the street. He slowly got himself up. His body was exhausted and tired. He had burnt out all of his reserves and even his nervous system had burnt out. He needed to rest. Suddenly, a portal opened up nearby and Seong Ho came out. He placed his hand over Victor's shoulder supporting his comrade.
"Ha... I-i'm sorry for that racist remark... I didn't mean it...", Victor mumbled, running a hand through his now dirty mid part blue hair. Seong Ho, pulled his face mask down and replied calmly, "Hey, it's okay... I know you didn't mean it... On the bright side, Adrik is coming right back towards us with Sora in his arms. Our operation has succeeded-"
"Not on my watch!"
A voice boomed through the smoke. Their stride felt wobbly under the rubble. Their silhouette appeared out of the smoke and it was Megumi. She was battered. She had survived. She held her shoulder using one arm. Her arms were all bloody, her pixie hair a mess and one of her eye was closed.
"I-I can still fight... I'm a PPA Agent... I won't let you bastards take Sora!", Megumi said her speech slurring because of her pain. She kept walking before stopped a few feet before them. Her breath was ragged. Definitely.
"Shit! I can't even use Senzai for now because of the fucking damage that attack did on me! I can't reinforce myself with Senzai! That attack was too fast... Hah... I still have reserves left, but my output is diminished from too much body damage! I'm now a defenseless human, but so is that zealot!", Megumi thought to herself her mind figuring out how to move herself and stop the threat ahead.
"Yoohoo! Heya guys! Woah~ you both went at this street like animals~ everything is destroyed~", Adrik said from behind Megumi. He was smiling innocently as if this bastard didn't just kill innocents back in Habukicho. He held a limp Sora in his arms as he walked past Megumi and threw Sora in Seong Ho's arms. Adrik stretched his body, cracking some stiff muscles at his back.
"Ha... You murderer... You literally killed innocents back there! I could sense that! Killing innocent humans isn't our goal! Glitchy made sure to teleport humans away to safety from this area before I blasted my Plasma Wave... And you fucking used them like canon fodder!", Victor yelled in annoyance. He grabbed Adrik by the neck, but he really couldn't threaten Adrik with no current Senzai enhancements. Adrik smirked back at Victor, showing no remorse for his actions. "Their deaths were for a greater cause, Victory~ Afterall...", Adrik whispered into Victor's ear with a smoky tone before he pulled away and saw a tired standing Megumi.
"Oh, you're a pretty one aren't you, miss...", Adrik smirked as he began to walk towards Megumi, his right arm exploding into a tendril like hand that wrapped around Megumi to restrain her. Megumi squirmed in his grip trying to move away.
"NO! DON'T DO IT ADRIK! SHE KILLS ECLIPSES LIKE US! THIS IS NOT RIGHT! STOOOP!", Victor yelled in fear. Even though he was against the PPA, he didn't really wanted to punish them. He tried to run towards Adrik but his legs gave out collapsing head first into concrete floor.
Adrik didn't give a moment to hear Victor before he brought Megumi closer and grabbed her by the chin. "Tell me, do you like centipedes?", Adrik whispered his eyes narrowing towards her. His kaleidoscope eye had faded back to his normal one.
"Wha- what do you mean you fucking bastard!", Megumi replied in half resentment and half fear. She kept squirming in his grip before suddenly Adrik pulled her close and crashed his lips against hers.
He grabbed the back of her head and kissed her on borderline violence. She screamed into his mouth but they were all muffled.
Suddenly her body went limp. Adrik had used his Metamorphosis Art to temporarily stop her body except keep her nervous system thinking straight and process the information. Adrik kissed harder, biting her plump lip till her lips bled. But it wasn't a hot kiss. It was a different one.
A chill ran down Megumi's spine. Her eyes tearing up as she felt hundreds of tiny legs crawl down her tounge to her esophagus. Centipededes. Adrik had kissed and sealed no exit for them to escape. He created them through Metamorphosis as the creepy crawlies went down her throat. Megumi began to scream. Her tough girl attitude fading into helplessness as she squirmed and tried to resist.
Adrik pulled out, a drool saliva connecting the two's lips before he let go of her by retracting his tendril into his body. Megumi collapsed down her body twitching and shuddering. Her eyes widen open as she whimpered.
Suddenly, she could feel the centipedes crawling under her skin all around her body, her shoulders, her stomach, her chest as they nibbled around trying to come out of it. Megumi screamed yet again her body flailing helplessly on the ground.
Adrik looked at her not with pity but with satisfaction. "This is artwork~ ehe~", Adrik commented before walking back towards his peers. Victor looked up at Adrik in fear and anger. He would have killed him but his temporarily lost power wouldn't let him. Seong Ho opened up a cosmic portal and took a knocked out Sora and collapsed Victor in. Adrik was about to step in before hies eyes widened from the sheer air pressure on him.
He turned around and saw the Director of PPA, Asia & Pacific, Yoru standing there with a serious look on her face. A team of medics had arrived to take a suffering Megumi away and tend to her. Police Sirens began to permeate through the city. Adrik simply smiled.
"Ah, how do I say this... Yes... 'Director-san~' what a pleasant surprise~", Adrik commented with a sheepish grin not caring to even hide his naked body. A few low tier agents began to swarm around Adrik and on the rooftops as they pointed their weapons: swords, guns and snipers at him.
These agents didn't have Senzai Arts, but they had the power to reinforce their weapons with some Senzai to make them stronger. They were called the Special Enforcement, because apart from assisting agents with Eclipse cases, they helped the police in the local area too.
"I'd have said you to stop, but it'd only take you a second to escape like the coward you are... But I have to ask you... Who are you guys? Why did you do this?", Yoru asked her arms folded. She was wearing her usual clothing: black turtleneck, blue denim jeans and brown overcoat.
Adrik smirked before replying casually, "Oh well, I guess you should know this atleast... We are the New Faith Order~ and our goal? Make Senzai be accessible by every human being through any means necessary... I don't have time to blabber like some novel's villainous baboon, but I suppose that's what you should know. Toodles~". Adrik jumped into the portal. The Special Enforcement agents fired at him but to no avail.
Operation Senzai Freedom. NFO success.
[Arc 1 - Sora Makizushi Raid Arc, Completed]
Chapter 13, end