trans_9 | In Which Zetta Trains

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."

"....What?"

Zetta blinked, then looked askance at Alessa. "He's got a cheap OHKO" -- yes, Zetta actually used the acronym -- "and an attitude. What's to get worked up about? Getting pissed is just giving him more attention than it's worth."

With that Shiki charged yet again, slashing and dodging the horrors which blocked his path. Every once in a while, he would be hit, but seemingly shrug off the attack. Nothing was going to stop him from killing his target.

[Note: By this point, Shiki is fatally injured yet continuing to push himself (he loses all control when faced with what he perceives is a threat). Hope either of you can come up with a way to stop him before either he or either of you die.]

The demon was right-perhaps she was still just irritated that she had been interrupted in such an abrupt way, especially after she had already expelled energy on some of Zetta's demons. There was no protesting any of what was going on, but she would remember this for later.

She saw that whoever he was, he was running low on his actual stamina, and would use his all to actually eliminate his target. Despite his irritating nature, Alessa could admire that. She would make sure she gave her all too, if it came down to it, and slashed and dodged herself.

She refused to be defeated like this, disgraced and crushed. NEVER.

"Oh for Magog's sake, why do I have to be the mature adult here?" Zetta complained. "I hate that."

Also hate: no arms. Shoving them off each other would've been easy. Fine, whatever, they're in the sensoriums, he can work with this.

A wall appeared between them -- or actually, technically, about fifteen hundred walls, nearly two-dimensional in thinness, layered like a Dagwood sandwich. Each layer was composed of a different material, just to make it harder for anyone to pull off a stupid teleport-through-the-wall trick. The wall stretched out to the limits of the sensorium's 'battlefield', which Zetta had restricted to a relatively small square.

"Now cut it out," Zetta snapped at both of them, making himself visible and audible on both sides. "This got silly a long time ago."

He's not the swiftest being in the universe, but never doubt the conceptual prowess of the Overlord.

Looking at the wall Zetta created had down the trick. With each layer being a different material, each layer had a unique concept of death. Seeing all of them caused Shiki's brain to shutdown or risk frying itself from the overabundance of information it was not supposed to comprehend. Collapsing to the floor, Shiki was sprawled out unconcious and bleeding out from the wounds all over his body.

That was fine: she had enough anyway. This was unexpected, but it had certainly satisfied her as she had wanted. This battle had been her equal, for the moment, and now she had material for the Sensorium. She would find a way to shrug off this moment, and now she had a goal.

She definitely felt the sting in her body, and she smiled.

"That was fine."

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