The Right of Power

A breakdown of discussions. It happened too fast for Yuki to actually follow. He saw the lead up to the moment, but not the actual moment. How could he, they were all super humans and he was just a normal one. None of his powers were activated to give him anything.

The force alone from the colliding forces knocked Yuki off his feet and tumbled him backwards. He painfully knocked his head against the brick trim around the roof of the building they stood on. It quickly decommissioned him for the early part of the fight.

Left with five people to fight off all at once, Seiji took both Umari and Nawabe head on initially. With a fist each, he was able to stop their opening introductions. However, he knew just from the way that they moved it was just a greeting. ‘They’re just using their muscles right now. They’re testing what I can do. They want to know if I’m worth their time.’ Throwing them off him, he leapt away from the building.

‘I’ve got to lead them away from Yuki. He’s not like us.’ Seiji rotated a little while in the air to watch. Even though he jumped, he wasn’t certain that they would follow. It was just a guess on his part. He saw the hunger for a fight. So he just assumed that they would follow. ‘I don’t know how destructive their powers might be.’

Their new site wasn’t much further away. Only a block, but it was some room, better than nothing. ‘Hopefully this is enough distance. I can’t let Yuki get caught up in this!’

Masayuki ground his teeth staring over at two of his team charging off into battle without his orders. He flipped back towards the others. “Hanari and Kasaya! I order you to stand down and do nothing! Or else…” While he made no action towards him, there were deep implications in his words that they were both very much aware of.

Crossing his arms, Hanari obeyed, though he seemed to be more watching rather than having an interest in joining. “Right. No need to blow a vein.”

“Two on one is already not really that fun,” Kasaya responded, “I’ve got no interest in joining, they’ll just get in my way.” Like Hanari, she seemed to only be watching. She understood as well that she should not move to act. However, it was less following orders and just personal preference.

“Damn those two,” Masayuki muttered, as he turned away. “I’m going to need to teach them respect again.” He leapt off the building, a little bit of sparks left behind where he had stood. The distance he covered to the other building seemed to be of little effort for him.

Chapter 311 – The Right of Power

Only a few exchanges between them and Seiji was already starting to understand how strong they were. Each punch could be felt. He actually had to pay attention to what happened with serious intent. ‘It’s like being back to our street brawling days. I hadn’t really thought about what it would be like to fight someone like me.’ It made him grin a little, feeling the bit of nostalgia. But he couldn’t smile for long against the two of them.

The fact that they were keeping up with him and not even using any powers gave him pause. ‘What else can they do? I know how I saw them fighting out over the bay. This isn’t all they can do…’ He had to be ready for anything.

“You’re a tough one,” praised Nawabe. “So you’re not all just talk.”

“Might have to actually be a little serious about this,” remarked Umari.

“Sorry for making you have to sweat,” Seiji replied playfully. It had been a while since he had a good fight and while they were both fight starved, neither had any of the lethal intent like others he knew. They just wanted to fight and fight strong people. Nothing else mattered to them. Selfish as it was, he understood that desire very well. It was something that he could, in a way, agree with, just not the way they were going about it.

It was complicated.

“Don’t worry, we’re not even warmed up yet,” she added.

“Seems you’ve seen some fighting. You haven’t just been sitting around doing nothing, afraid of your powers.”

“Yeah, I’ve been through hell already.”

“I want to see more of what you can do!”

“We going to get a little more serious?” Umari looked over at Nawabe in an odd way of looking for his approval. He nodded to her with a grin. “Right!” She took out a wide stance that wasn’t meant for offense. The air around her suddenly changed. A soft white glow surrounded her body altering the tension in the air.

Seiji reflexively went into a defensive stance not exactly sure what they were planning on doing. He held back an attack to see what they would do. There was no real sense of threat and danger that made him want to put an end to things. He had curiosity. He wanted to see what they had to offer.

“Slot change!” shouted Umari, the white glow disappeared from her. Then suddenly a ghost-like image of a person that was completely unrelated to her appeared in front of her body. “Equip save twenty-four!” The ghost flew back, entering Umari’s body. Streaks of blonde appeared through her hair and she seemed to grow a little in size. Slight alterations went through her body as though the ghost had possessed her.

Nawabe kicked the building that they stood on, knocking over a few chunks of debris. They fell at his feet. “This should be enough for you.” He threw down his hand at the debris with beams of yellow light coming out from his palm. “Lifegiver!”

The bits of brick suddenly floated up to shoulder height. Their surfaces rounded out a little and seemed to almost appear to have faces. However, Seiji was quite certain he was just seeing things. Though he couldn’t ignore the fact that he saw bricks being created out of nothing and flung at him by these pieces of debris.

Punching through them, they crumbled into powder. But it was just a screen for Umari to come charging in with blinding speed. Her fists glowed with an eerie light that Seiji had no time to dodge. His shoulder took the full blast. Upon impact, an explosion went off and sent him flying backwards through the building and the adjacent building.

His body laid in a crater of his own making on the ground. ‘Damn that hurt. Felt like a bomb went off the moment she touched me. They have some weird powers…’ He looked over to see blood dripping down from his arm. His shirt was completely torn through. It could still move, but he didn’t feel like he was going to get the full movement out of it anymore.

No sooner had he started to move then he saw Umari standing at the top of the crater staring down at him. “You’re going to need to start using your power. Muscle’s not going to get you very far with us.”

Seiji dodged the incoming attacks from Nawabe’s strange debris. This time he expected a follow-up attack by Umari, as he could see that they were tag teaming him. It still made it difficult to manage. She moved like a blur for him. ‘She’s not as fast as Saki, but almost there. Damn, I’ve never actually had to fight someone like this before…’ He was forced to take the blast from her fist with his hand just to keep it away from his body.

The impact still knocked him back and left him tumbling through the grass covered streets. Gritting his teeth through the pain, he ignored the blood that covered his hand. It still worked, but he could have sworn that she broke a finger.

“Taking that with your hand. You are impressive. Most people are screaming like a baby after just one hit from me.”

“Like I said, I’ve been through hell. A little scratch like this is nothing.”

“Oh really?” She charged in like a blur once more ready to take up the challenge that he dropped down. This time she went first, throwing Seiji’s game off a little when the projectiles came flying in during the middle of their fight. She seemed to know exactly when and where they would come.

It all felt like the whole thing took place over like ten minutes in Seiji’s mind, but the heightened sense in such speeds had altered his perceptions of what was just thirty seconds. In that short little time, his shirt had become completely ruined and blood dripped down from multiple new injuries that he took.

‘Damn, they’re not even taking this seriously either.’ Seiji took a pause when they seemed to have finally broken after their flash of fighting. “Looks like I’m going to have to be serious about this,” he noted, touching his hand to his chest. ‘This is going to be a difficult fight.’

“Finally!” she shouted with a little too much excitement in her voice.

Taking off his shirt, Seiji threw it back behind him. The exposed muscles on his enhanced body shined a little with sweat from the fight. Loose streams of blood dripped from the wounds he sustained. But none of it mattered to him. “It’s been a while since I’ve fought a serious ass fight!” he taunted them. ‘I say that, but it’s really only been a month since I’ve fought at all.’

“Look at the muscle man.”

Nawabe looked down from the building roof with a bit of a grin. “He’s just trying to look hot.”

“Muscles aren’t the only thing that’s sexy,” Umari said, not always understanding his taste in men.

“Then you won’t mind if I take him.”

“You have to beat me to him first!”

Seiji stared a little blank faced at what was suddenly happening in front of him. “Umm…are we going to fight?”

“Sorry to keep you waiting!” Nawabe called, bringing up his debris launchers.

“Right…” Seiji hardened his features ready for the next round of attacks. A slight glow started to pulse down his scars on his right arm. He was ready for them.

A new presence suddenly dropped in behind Nawabe. “This fight is over!” commanded Masayuki in a deep threatening voice. Nawabe suddenly dropped down to one knee before him. The debris fell away completely lifeless. Masayuki glared down at Nawabe with a dark shadow over his eyes.

Nawabe seemed to be shaking, but unable to move. Only his eyes could look up towards his commanding officer. “…damn…you…”

Across the block back with Yuki, he finally woke up from his minute nap. Trying to ignore the massive headache that he now had, he stood up. “Dammit, that hurt a lot. I’m not used to these sorts of situations.” Disregarding the two soldiers left behind, Yuki walked over to the edge of the building where they seemed to be staring.

In the distance, he could barely see Seiji along with someone else fighting. He also saw two others looking like they were ready to jump Seiji and turn things into a three on one fight. “Ugh…looks like I’m going to have to use it. But damn, my head hurts.”

A ripple jumped out of his feet quickly expanding out over the entire area completely enclosing all involved parties. “There. Now it’s over.” Yuki started to float into the air to cross over to put an end to things.”

Umari stumbled over her feet with her appearance reverted to normal. Confused, she pushed herself up, not sure what was going on. She seemed to be checking her body. “Slot change!” Nothing happened. “Slot change!” It didn’t make any sense to her. “Why can’t I use my power?” She glared over at Seiji. “Is this your power?!”

“Huh?”

Standing up, Nawabe blinked in surprise to see that he was no longer restrained. He grinned a little and looked over at Masayuki. “Looks like you don’t have control anymore, Captain.” Nawabe jumped off the building, but came to the sudden realization that his body was not as powerful as it should have been. “What the hell?! What happened to my body?” He saw the ground quickly coming up to him and it hit him what was going to happen. He closed his eyes, panicking over his sudden mortality.

“Damn, that was close,” Yuki sighed, having caught Nawabe by his collar. He effortlessly pulled him back up to the roof only a few centimeters from a painful crash. Yuki dropped him back off in front of Masayuki.

Even Masayuki was staring at his hands trying to understand what happened. When he saw that it seemed to be affecting everyone but Yuki, he stared at him as he arrived. “What did you do to us?”

Yuki crossed his arms in front of his chest taking up the dominant position, now forced upon him by the rash behavior. “It’s my power. I am able to turn everyone into a normal human with my power.”

“What?! Impossible!”

“You say that after seeing how many different powers people have right now? You can’t believe that there is someone with the power to take away your power?”

It all took a moment for Masayuki to process it, but he quickly came to the expected outcome. “Then you could—“

“My power doesn’t work like that. It’s not a permanent thing, just while I’m focused on it. So no, I can’t turn Japan back to normal.” He started to float away from Masayuki, heading towards Seiji. “Like I said before, I don’t want to fight. I’ll leave peacefully, so don’t follow us.” Yuki met them with an intense look that showed the depth of his resolve and determination. “You don’t stand a chance against me if I want to try.”