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Hunter X Hunter: Grounded
🕑 Added 2020-09-25 03:34:04 +0000 UTCChapter 27
Title: Azula vs….
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-Azula POV-
I can feel something tight wrap around my throat, it has a surprisingly strong grip. So I tighten the muscles on my neck so the things can't break my neck or stop oxygen from going to my brain.
But even as I do that I can feel my muscles in my neck get ripped to shreds, I have to use Gyo to concentrate Nen on my neck, and as the grip widens a little I simply slip out of the choke.
I immediately jump back and look at the person who attacked me, what I see is someone I am very familiar with. It is a little girl who is wearing a sailor school uniform, dark Nen is flowing out of her with bandages floating around her like snakes.
I can easily sense her intention… the killing intent she is releasing is like a beacon. I also see that the killer looks like she is directing towards me. Her face is cold and her Aura which fluctuates around like tendrils made out of the darkness.
"Azula… do you want to kill Sub?" I hear Karla ask as her Nen expands exponentially as she says that. I can see the massive Nen she has in those bandages.
How the fu*k didn't I sense her attack me?
Still, I decide to quickly answer her question and try to stop the situation from escalating. "No, I never planned on killing Sub."
"Is that so?" Asks Karla rehoritically, but her Nen doesn't settle down at all. She really wants to fu*king kill me… this psycho little sh*t. Fu*k, fu*k, fu*k… I might actually just die like this. How do I escape?
I look around and see that there is no way I can escape from Karla, but then I get an idea and…
Baam!
I punch the roof below me that I was standing on… immediately bandages come after me but they are too slow as I quickly fall down and look for a room with a door. That way I can enter my <Black Market Shop> space where she can't touch me.
But as soon as I drop down I feel abject despair as I see that all of the doors were destroyed.
Karla destroyed them already, I hear Karla landing behind as her bandages come towards me.
I jump forward and run away from them. I then sneakily reach behind my back and out of a pouch pull a hand-grenade. Use my shark-like teeth to pull off the pin and throw it towards Karla whose eyes widen at this.
Yeah you little b*tch, let's see you survive this.
I see her panic a little as she gathers her bandages around the grande, but she is too slow.
BOOOOOM!
I am pushed back by the explosion and I use this propulsion force to use Nen and punch the wall I am going to be bashed against.
Baam!
Crack!
I break through the wall and I am on the outside… falling down from a seven-story height.
I am about to position my body to land on my feet but suddenly.
Fwosh!
As I am midair, I can't move at all as I see bandages wrap around my legs and then they crawl all over my body and a small figure covered in bandages like a mummy jumps off the building.
I see some of the bandages around Karla's body are covered in blood. She is definitely injured. Sh*t… I pull another grade and sneakily hold it close to myself. As soon as she gets close I will explode it and hopefully, she will be knocked out or killed and even though I know that I will be heavily injured, I will live… hopefully…
I see she gets close to me, about an arms reach away, and as I am about to throw the grande again.
I feel bandages stop me as they wrap around my arms and…
Crack!
Break the bones on both of my arms, so my grade slips from my hand and as it is falling… it suddenly explodes mid-air not that far away from me.
Booom!
Fire licking my back was the last thing I felt as darkness surrounded me… as my consciousness slipped away.
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-Sub POV-
I look at Karla and Azula midair and a grenade slips out of the latter's hand, exploding not that far away from her.
Azula is knocked out and Karla uses her bandages to grab Azula and stop her from splattering on the ground below.
She then uses her bandages like spider man as she moves back to the roof where I am currently at. I see that Karla is fully covered in bandages and even though she is currently healing herself, her bandages still seem to be covered in blood.
"So, how was it?" I ask Karla on how her first real fighting experience was.
Bandages come off the top of her head revealing her pale face. I frown at this. "You need help?"
She just shakes her head as she falls on her knees. "No, no need…"
I nod at that. Though she is only seven years old, I can confidently say that Karla is the person I trust the most in this world. We already knew that Azula was cooking something up. I have always been suspicious of her since day one. She joined me for purely selfish reasons, even though she did help me back on the Organization, she always did it for herself. She joined me just so she could learn Nen, and that was it. Honestly, I would have let her go if her power wasn't so fu*king dangerous.
No... her ability is really beyond dangerous to have under anyone else's control except mine.
Though Azula never really knew, me and Karla were conducting our own investigation on her ability. She kept secrets from us but we did the same against her. First, we learned that Azula had no idea what happened inside the <Black Market Shop> so the first couple of times that mafia goons under Karla's control entered. They just ran around mapping and all that sh*t.
But in the end, we discovered something else too. We learned that when we sent a goon inside with the necessary materials to buy for example… let's say something that fits through the door. A motorcycle, then that gon would ride that newly bought motorcycle at top speeds to the end of the <Black Market Shop>. And after ships, planes, and other military equipment… we learned that it actually sells Nen… or more specifically Hatsu Abilities that Azula has heard of and knows how they generally work.
On the shelf was my <Dirt Cheap> Hatsu, Karla's different <Bandage Hatsu> which each was sold as different Hatsus and not as one deal, also Ogre's Hatsu was there too. But neither me nor Karla, nor Azula can really use the Hatsu even if we did have it so it doesn't matter. But it still was on the shelf.
The price for my ability was worth ten tons of rock, ten-ton of dirt, and the dead body of a two headed snake. I don't even know if a two-headed snake is a thing on the Human Continent. But then again, there are a lot of exotic and strange animals that exist in this world but not in mine. Also, Karla's abilities were also very expensive… like just her <Truth Bandage> was worth the 100 hearts of teen girls who were in love before and during their death, plus a bloody bandage who saved the life of someone.
Anyway, even as my mind wanders, I go over to Karla and help her lie down on the ground softly. I wanted her to fight against a real tricky opponent like Azula, I knew that she was never in danger or I would have interfered. Also, she could go all out against Azula, after all on Karla's conditions in two of her Hatsu Abilities have the death condition and on one of them, it says that if she uses <Truth Bandage> on a Deadly Sin member then she will die. But I am the leader of the Deadly Sins and I can kick members out whenever I want, so this creates a loophole where Karla can now use the <Truth Bandage>...
As I lie Karla down I check her injuries, but they don't seem that bad. Most likely in a couple of days, with the help of her healing Hatsu, she will be in top shape.
I then turn my gaze towards the unconscious woman on the other side who is all wrapped up in bandages.
Azula… she truly did a wrong move for planning against me. As soon as I once sensed a small trail of killing intent from her… then Azula's fate was sealed.
I can't help but wonder a little… what should I do with Azula now…
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AUTHOR NOTE:
We see what has been going on behind the scenes on Karla's and Sub's side too. Azula thought that she was holding secrets from them but they also had their own secrets and were doing their own plans and outsmarting Azula their own way.
