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Hunter X Hunter: Grounded
🕑 Added 2020-09-22 19:02:15 +0000 UTCChapter 23
Title: Swordsman X Tanker...
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When I sense the person I just pick up two small pebbles and throw them at Azula's and Karla's heads. They immediately open their eyes as they are hit, I don't even try to notify Ogre, he has been too tired as of lately due to training too hard and running out of Nen continuously during his training. His simple mindset allows him to have a high concentration on a specific task, his concentration can slightly close the distance of talent. But though, the kid will forget to even eat when he is training.
Karla and Azula look at me and I just point on the outside. They nod at this, understanding that this means that an enemy is nearby.
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-General POV-
As soon as Karla feels something slightly hit her head. Immediately she wakes up and is fully alert. Though she is young, she has an expert level of alertness towards her surroundings.
When she sees that it was just Sub staring at her with his usual, bored and glossy eyes and he points on the outside, meaning that there is an enemy outside. But to Karla, it seems like Sub is worried for her.
As she gets up she notices that Azula gets up too and sees that Sub notified her too.
'That bitch…' Thinks Karla, raging on the inside. She wants to kill that whòre who talked to Sub the whole day, but she knows that Sub wouldn't like that, so she won't kill Azula. But as soon as she sees her acting suspiciously she will kill her, she knows that Sub will understand her.
They walk towards Sub who is at the door and he says. "He is a Nen user, I just want you to observe how battles between Nen users are."
Karla and Azula nod at this and they jump high and hit on one of the windows as Sub, walks outside. "You were already found out so come out now. You should know that as soon as you entered my En zone."
As he says that, Sub truly doesn't sound threatening at all. He is only six years old and mostly looks like a kid, so his childish voice could say whatever, and he wouldn't sound threatening at all.
But out of the darkness a man wearing a dark kimono and a katana in his hand. He is also bald and has a scar over his nose just under his eyes. Seb can see that the man in front of him is in a state of Zetsu, most likely trying to hide and go for a sneak attack when they were sleeping, but En can sense movements even when someone is in a state of Zetsu, it would be useless.
The man has a harsh look as he looks at Sub. "Killing a kid brings a bad taste to my mouth, but sadly the mafia community is after you."
Sub nods at this. "I see… then be glad. I won't be the one dying today."
Veins appear on the assassin's forehead, he grinds his teeth in anger as Sub talks to him as if he is his inferior.
"I see… then die kid."
Fwosh!
The unnamed assassin comes towards Sub, but he just uses Ken and reinforces his defense.
Clink!
Sub is pushed back by the slash, but there is no injury on him. The man looks at this with a look of surprise on his face. But he is still calm as he slashes to the right of Sub's neck.
Sub brings his hand up and blocks it easily. Even the power in the strike doesn't affect him at all as the shock of the strength is lessened by turning his Nen soft like dirt under the rock-like defense.
But suddenly at the left side, the opposite where the unnamed man attacked from a green slash appears and…
Baam!
It hits Sub on the face and he flies backward falling on the ground, still having no injury on him. He just looks at the sky as he lays on the ground, while the assassin gets closer and closer to him with his katana in hand.
"I see… so you use Emission on the opposite side where the slash comes from. You are either an Emitter or an Enhancer. Also, your Emitted attack has only about 50% of the power of the real attack… so most likely you are an Enhancer." He then gets up and looks at the surprised look of the assassin.
'This kid… he is dangerous.' Thinks the man as a green hue appears on his sword. He immediately rushes towards Sub, this time doing a full out slash attack.
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-Sub (MC) POV-
I just look at him as he slashes towards me. I just sneakily take out the Benz knife behind my back and as he is about to slash towards me. I jump forward into his slash, we have different sizes so his reach is further than mine, that is why I need to enter his attack zone and as his slash gets close to me I take out the Benz knife and slash towards his stomach.
Plop!
Immediately I jump back as I feel something on my arm that was holding the Benz knife. My eyes widen as I look at it… my arm is simply no longer there. I see that my arm with the Benz knife is on the ground in front of the swordman's leg.
He doesn't say anything as he crouches down and picks up my cut off arm, taking the knife in it.
"Hmmm… a Benz knife? This is some good stuff." Says the man as he cuts my separated arm again and throws it away.
I am completely calm at this as I construct my muscles on the stump two inches from my shoulder. I stop the bleeding that way, and the man attacks me again.
I immediately rush towards him with a cold look in my eyes and a green hue appears on his sword again. But this time he also has the Benz knife on his other hand. I am not worried about any of that though as I use Gyo on my fist and attack the man.
"Bad move kid." Says the man as we are close to each other and…
Plop!
My other arm falls on the ground. But in that split second, I noticed the man's guard go down. I just use my rock-like Nen on my foot. Turning the Nen at the tip of my toes extremely sharp and…
Fwish!
I kick up and stab the man in the testicles, I can see his eyes widen and tear up as he drops his sword and Ben's knife immediately grasping his balls as he falls on the ground. I use a Nen on my teeth and…
*Munch*
I bite the artery of the man's neck…
*gurgle*
He immediately falls unconscious as a fountain of blood flows out of him. As he falls on the ground…
Stomp!
I kick his head on the ground.
Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!...
I do so until it's just mush on the ground. I then look at Karla and Azula. Azula has a surprised look on her face while Karla has tears in her eyes.
I just spit out the flesh in my mouth, well I have eaten grosser things so...
"Sub! NOOO!" Screams Karla as she jumps down and comes towards me. But she stops midway as the logical side takes over, she grabs both of my cut arms, and one of them was cut in two pieces.
I can see her Nen overflowing irregularly, expressing her emotions on the matter. Well, it doesn't matter anyway, we can go to a doctor close by and reattach my arms. Plus even if somehow that doesn't work, Greed Island has Angel's Breath. No need to panic just for some cut off arms, plus it doesn't even hurt that much.
"Hey! Karla calm down." I call out to her, but it seems like she is breathing heavily and can't even listen to me as she grabs some bandages and grabs my arm which is in one piece. Welp, she isn't listening to me, so I use Gyo on my eyes and see if the assassin left anything like a Nen Curse in my wounds.
She then tries to use bandages to attach my arm. The look in my eyes softens a little when I see her do this. She is truly loyal, but she needs to be calmer in situations like this.
I look up at Azula and see she has broken fingers. Yep, she tried to stop Karla from entering my battle.
Anyway, as expected, Nen users are dangerous, and even though I was a better Nen user than my attacker. He went all out immediately and used his fighting experience and longer reach to have an advantage over me. This is simple really, he had a physical advantage over me. Well… it doesn't matter anyway, in the end, I won and learned some valuable things myself.
I just look at my arms and wonder if I could create some fake arms from my <Dirt Cheap> Hatsu Ability. Maybe create some rock arms…
But I am brought out of my thoughts as I see in front of me… Karla… bandages are floating around her and the bandages have a lot of Nen in them.
"Sub… what is the name of our group?" Asks Karla. My eyes widen at this… she is actually creating her Hatsu right now!?!?!
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AUTHOR NOTE:
We see that Sub wasn't really worried about his wounds and the pain that he felt, while painful to a normal person, to him it's nothing. We also see the scary calmness that he has during a battle, that even when his arms got cut off he was calm. Really the only reason he got so injured is because of his young body.
P.S: The MC is only six so even though he has been training Nen for quite a while, that doesn't mean that he can defeat more experienced and strong adult Nen users that easily.
P.P.S: Also I will usually post the new Hatsus that appear in the story at the end of the chapter. I came up with them, so even though the MC might not know how it exactly works... I do... so yeah... here it is...
THE ASSASSIN STAT PAGE:
Name: Jin (DEAD)
A samurai from Jappon who wanders around as a mercenary earning as much as he can and then he spends most of it on gambling. He has been wanting to get out of the business for a long time, but his gambling addiction and sometimes love for battle haven't let him. He hates his instinctual side which is like a wild animal always in search of blood. He picked up the mission to assassinate Sub, Karla, Ogre, and Azula because the mafia offered a lot of money for any of their heads. He has slightly above average talent in Nen and learned it during his time in Heaven's Arena. He was awakened by someone on the 200th floor whom he later killed. He is a natural Enhancer.
Hatsu:
<Reverse Slash> (Emission)
A slash that has around 50% of the power of his real slash, attacks the opposite side of the real slash.
<Transesophageal Slash> (Enhancement)
This Hatsu Ability increases the cutting power of his sword and its durability. It is activated when he uses SHU and encases his weapon with Nen.
Risks:
-When used, a green hue appears over his sword, showing when he is using the technique.
Conditions:
-Can only be used when he is holding a katana made in Joppon.
-It can only be used three times a day.
