ocean-life CHAPTER 005(Critical Wounds)
CHAPTER 005(Critical Wounds)
CHAPTER 005(Critical Wounds)
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Rushing toward Chrome, the massive metal-plated brute, Law glances at Hawk, seeing the hero rocket toward his mother, swords in hand and three dozen small feathers flying alongside him like sentient knives.
'Direct confrontation isn't our specialty, assassination is,' Law thinks, his mind racing a thousand miles a minute to solve this problem. 'I need to save as many tricks as possible in case they have reinforcements on the way, and I need to deal with Chrome quickly before mom gets overwhelmed by those feathers, she can't defend from all angles but also can't hurt Chrome, damn it...'
Both pairs separate slightly and break into individual duels.
Chrome punches down at Law with a massive metal fist, only for the swordsman to pivot and turn his back to the hero.
'Shambles!'
CLANG!
Blade clashes against metal skin as they swap places and Law slashes at his back. A large gash is left on the hero's back, but it draws no blood.
Law leaps away as Chrome swings back to swat him.
'Damn power types,' Law internally groans. Being an assassin, he rarely, if ever, comes into confrontation with a power type, and certainly not one that's in the top twenty Japanese hero ranking.
Law tries to aim the point of his sword at Chrome to attack his insides with a force bullet, but the hero closes the distance between them too quickly.
"Shining Fist!" Chrome yells out, his dazzling metallic fist striking Law's sword, sending a wave of numbness up Law's arms as it knocks him across the roof.
Law rolls across the ground, then looks up just in time.
"Shining Stomp!" Chrome yells as he descends onto Law, aiming to stomp on the assassin.
'Idiot heroes are always yelling,' Law internally groans as he swaps places with Chrome.
Law fell a few feet to the roof and landed on his feet while Chrome suddenly appeared on the roof instead of falling, leaving a small crack because of his momentum.
As Chrome realizes what happened he rushes Law, but the assassin was already a few meters away with his sword raised high.
'Injection shot!' he commands while Chrome charges.
"Argh!" Chrome collapses with a heavy clank, cracking and chipping the concrete roof.
Law had aimed for his thigh, tearing through the artery and tendon without breaking the skin, the hero collapsed in pain as his fleshy insides we shredded. Chrome grits his teeth and makes an erratic, mad dash toward Law, realizing what had happened and making it difficult for the boy to aim.
'Injection Shot!'
The shoulder.
'Injection Shot!'
The gut.
'Injection Shot!'
The brain, finally killing the hero.
Law's blade clashes with Hawks, and the hero's eyes widen, realizing Law had swapped places with a feather at his side.
'Shambles!'
CLANG! This time Hawks barely reacts fast enough, blocking a slash intended for his back, his feathers heightening his senses and awareness to react nearly as fast as Law, but not quite fast enough to really block anything.
But Law had to allow him to block some.
'Shambles!'
CLANG!
Hawks lifts both swords and meets Law's strike to his left side, pushing back against Law, his confidence was built up enough.
'Shambles!'
Hawks reacts, and Law once again allows him to defend, blocking with both his feather swords crossed directly in front of him.
And as their blades meet.
'Amputate!'
Law's sword delivers a slash that separates matter, taking advantage of Hawks's confidence in his ability to parry. The hero's eyes widen in horror as his feather swords are cleanly sliced through.
'Incision!'
After Law's blade breaks Hawks's guard he changes the type of slash he performs. Switching from Amputate which harmlessly divides organic matter, to Incision, which increases the physical and destructive property of his slash.
The moment his blade makes contact with the hero's armored chest plate it sinks nearly an inch deep.
Hawks doesn't even register the searing pain until after all his feathers instinctively yank him backward. The slash that would have cut his heart in two and ended his career right there instead only sank an inch deep before his body was pulled back by his feathers.
From his left shoulder to nearly his right hip Law's blade leaves a trail of blood and pain across his chest as all the available feathers slam into the hero and rocket away from the roof with him in tow.
The blood that sprayed out of Hawks's chest in his retreat splashed across Law's mask, the normal obsessively hygenic surgeon doesn't even pay it any mind as the hero retreats.
Law doesn't both to chase or even continue his assault, he drops his sword and runs back toward where his mother lays, fighting to desperately cling to life.
Dropping to his knees beside her he cradles her in his arms and places a hand on her chest.
"Booster Shot," he begs his quirk to heal her, and the blue light flows from his palm into her torso, her broken ragged breathing and irregular heartbeat don't change. Faint and barely there if at all.
"Room!" Law commands, expanding his ROOM, creating the largest ROOM he could to get them out of here.
He needed his operating tools.
He needed life support devices.
He needed...he needed.
"Home..." he says in an exhausted voice, "shambles..."
Both he and his mother disappeared from the rooftop...
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