trans_9 | In Which Zetta Trains

Alessa was not one to be shaking with fear anytime soon, and while dispatching Prinnies had been her primary aim, she watched him with a very keen interest. She had not, after all, seen a type like him before, particularly when his appearance said one thing, his aura another.

She looked at the boy and spoke. "What brings you here?"

The cutting-into-pieces thing didn't bother Zetta, that sort of thing happened all the time in the Netherworld. Even the instant-death effect was standard game fare, right?

No, what irritated Zetta was his complete inability to read this kid's level. How is he supposed to properly balance the fights to maximize experience gain for everyone?

Oh well. Zetta just kept adding five to the levels of the Prinnies till Shiki couldn't one-shot them any more.

With fluid motions, Shiki continuously dispatched the monsters spawned by Zetta. While it became harder to hit them, just one wound was all it took to take them out. Every once in a while, Shiki would take a glancing blow, but ultimately he would appear to be unaffected by the attack.

Knowing that the Demon and Overlord were actually passengers, it took every fiber of his concentration to hold back his Nanaya instincts, his instincts to erase their very existence. As such, he tried his very best to pay them little attention.

"That's rude," Alessa said, and now she was actually starting to feel a little annoyed. Really, she had been doing this to taker care of pent up aggression, and here comes this boy just killing things off without so much sda an introduction.

He had better PAY attention, because in a moment Alessa was going to be looking for another opponent from the Overlord that he hadn't annihilated yet.

Continuing his mad dance of death, Shiki's speed catapulted well beyond anything a human should be able to achieve. For the briefest of moments he disappeared from sight as if he teleported, right next to the fuming demon.

Nanaya was taking control, constantly yelling "KILL! KILL! KILL!" in Tohno Shiki's mind. All limiters removed, his instincts told him to destroy the most dangerous entity in the room. Alessa's lines and points were barely visible, but he could trace them.

See, this is exactly what Zetta hates about being a book. He's the most dangerous entity by far, damn it. Strongest mana power in the universe? Hello?

Uh, but yeah. Zetta squinted at this suddenly developing-scene as he pondered an intervention, should one become necessary.

Before he could deal the lethal blow, the whizzing bolts of magic forced him to quickly jump back. Quickly spinning around, he "killed" two bolts of fire aimed at his back and stabbed a Prinny leaping at him. As Nanatsu-yoru entered the Prinny's chest, Shiki chose not only to kill the Prinny, but all of its forward momentum as well.

Which was an excellent idea -- but Prinnies explode. It's one of the fundamental rules of ~~the Disgaeaverse, but oddly not Makai Kingdom, but we ignore that for the lulz~~ the cosmos. So even if you kill its forward momentum as it flies, well, kaboom.

(Also possibly Zetta is being a sadistic bastard about it all.)

Alessa was still watching this newcomer, already battling her internal feelings on fighting the impudent boy and yet still getting her aggressions out. The prinnies that came she grabbed and flung carelessly: she was not ignorant of the fact they exploded. She wanted to see what the impulsive one would do.

Unfortunately, this seemed to no longer be the case as the body of the Prinny just seemed to drop to the floor of the Sensorium. Whatever Shiki had killed, it had been too much for his brain to handle, and the sudden rush of pain in his head caused him to stagger briefly.

Taking a quick breath, Shiki turned around to see a some sort of giant enemy attempting to close in on him. Crouching for less than a second, Shiki then disappeared to behind the beast, its carcass falling into 17 neatly cut pieces.

Alessa could watch a demon ass kicking as much as anyone, but sh had a tendency to get bored too. What was the point of having her strength and power when she just had to keep holding it back all of the time? She wanted to fight.

"Ok, that's enough of those," she said, and appeared in front of him. "I need release. Why not give me a try?'"

Sizing up his opponent, Nanaya smirked as he looked at the lines which defined Alessa's death.

"Heh."

With that Shiki rushed toward his challenger, preparing attack her point of death on the upper right part of her chest.

If he thought he was going to find a demon locked in the same place, it might be true: this was not so for Alessa. The moment he moved she readied herself to be out of that reach: reappearing in different places, after all, was a power any decent demon had.

And the death tentacles played their part too: they shot out at the boy and mobilized him. She knew what was likely to be the next course of action fr0om him, but she wanted to know exactly how strong it WAS first.

The demon clearly had no idea of the world Shiki saw through his eyes, his cursed Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. When the tentacles shot forth, he was more than ready to receive them, instinctively attack their points of death and killing the concept of their very existence. Turning back toward Dark Alessa, he let his instincts tell him where she was, her malice and hatred alerting him to her exact location after every time she teleported.

She wasn't sure where his world was, but wherever it was had kept her pretty much at a disadvantage when it came to her full on attack. He may have thought that he had struck a blow to the tentacles, though even Alessa knew how to pull out at the last moment to prevent further injury.

However, he would find her location of her a bit harder than he thought. Relying on finding her through "malice and hatred" would definitely have been easier several months ago, or even a few years ago when those things were the only ones that occupied her very being. The malice was there (it had to b e) the hatred, not so much.

She appeared several feet in front of him, with demons aiding her now, moving quickly to drag the boy down.

When Alessa appeared before him, bringing her demon familiars to with her, Shiki was prepared to receive her. It was not so much the malice which alerted him to his danger but rather instinct, like that of an animal being hunted. However, he was the hunter, and his blade was ready to strike at everything before him. Fighting Alessa was like fighting Nvrnqsr Chaos, he just needed to cut her familiars as he approached the main body. Her points of death were in plain view, and stabbing one would cause her existence to unravel.

Alessa's well being was at stake now, or at least it was very possible. Whoever this boy was, he was trying to wipe her from existence from this place, and she wouldn't allow this to happen. Just because he had his own senses alerting him to danger, didn't mean she didn't have some of her own.

Which was why, if he was going to get even near her, she'd have a barrier set up, not to mention much stronger minions, and whatever Zetta would throw at him.

When Shiki saw the barrier come up, you could see a small smirk appear on his face.

"If it exists I can kill it."

With that he effortlessly cut through the barrier surrounding Alessa, but was forced to retreat when her minions attacked him.

So Mr. quiet finally said something. It took him long enough.

"So then you're an assassin then. Good for you. You won't be permitted to kill me of course, not that I would understand your motivation for doing so."

How would she? They only just met anyway, which was why another barrier came up, stronger than the last.

It was not a matter of permission, but more along the lines of instinct. Shiki's bloodline was that of demon hunters, and it causes him to instinctively attempt to kill anything he perceives as a threat. Couple that with his Mystic Eyes which allow him to see and interact with the conceptual death of something, and you have a natural killer. When confronted with the second barrier, the Nanaya part of Shiki, that which is defined by his bloodline and instincts, smirked and killed it as easily as he had done the first one.

With that, Alessa disappeared. Se didn;t want to admit that her ego had taken a pretty severe hit here: she didn't LOSE, not esaily, especially to soe rag tag humans he knew nothing about who was able to magically undo demonic barriers. Something was seriously amiss.

Which was why her disappeared and she appeared herself, looking far from happy.

"YOU," she practically snarled. "What are you?"

"Just your average high school student."

Unless the demon no longer seemed to be a threat, or a greater one did not present itself, Shiki would continue to follow the instincts programmed into his bloodline.

"Bull shit," Alessa said. "A normal high school student would be torn to shreds. You can at least have the courage to reveal what you are."

"As I said, I am 'just your average high school student.' 100% human."

Nanaya cockily smirked as he prepared for his next attack. As Nanaya, Shiki was able to ignore the pain in his head for overusing his Mystic Eyes. However, this continued usage may have lasting repercussions.

Alessa's anger burned. This filthy child had some nerve, acting like it was human, interrupting her training session like it could just come here and do this. But if he really wanted to do this...

Alessa closed her eyes as the room swam in horrors: Alessa was far from being over, and she certainly wasn't going to let this human smile at her like that. The room started to shake a little, and Alessa looked up.

"This human thinks he's beyond demon capability," Alessa said to overlord Zetta. "Assist me in showing him different."

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