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As you watch, the boy suddenly disappears from view! The camera seems to track nothing for a couple seconds, then gives up and simply zooms out to see the entire kaiju. The swordsman streaks around it in circles, weaving between its legs as a flash.
Kase seems to be able to move around extremely quickly, even suddenly changing velocity in midair. He uses this to move around the kaiju, staying away from its head. The monitor lizard's main attack seems to be that beam of geothermal energy which tears through anything it touches. It served the beast well against the hordes of aliens and you'd guess it would be highly effective against a slow target like a tank or heavy mech, but it can't be used at all against the quick swordsman so long as he keeps moving around it.
And he keeps getting strikes in, too. While even the cuts from such a massive sword only amount to papercuts against a kaiju, the magical blade has no difficulty piercing its thick hide. The beast seems to be getting angry, literally heating up. The stones on its back begin to glow with heat while it bleeds magm- er, lava from the many wounds on its legs and belly.
Judging from previous fights you've watched, this one will come down to endurance. Either the kaiju will be worn down from its wounds and cool down enough for Kase to land a killing blow, or the swordsman will get tired out from the fighting and either be forced to retreat or atomized by a geothermal beam.
You can tell how close the kaiju is to succumbing just based on the number of wounds and its size, but you don't know enough about Kase Inanari Darwin to tell how much longer he can fight. It depends on the nature of his abilities. Maybe he can just keep airdashing forever without getting tired, or maybe it drains his body or takes stored energy from his sword or something. There's really no way to tell without doing some research.
While you're considering this, the end of the fight comes suddenly. It wasn't, as you predicted, simply one of the fighters getting tired.
Rather, what happened was that a random swipe of the kaiju's claws connected, spearing a single lamp-post sized nail into Kase's shoulder. A foot to the left and he would have died instantly. As it is, his right arm is completely out of commission.
You've seen things like this before, but you still wince. You could swear that you feel your own arm ache sympathetically.
The swordsman, on the other hand, doesn't show much sign of pain. You're not sure if it's some power of his or if he's just that disciplined, but he doesn't miss a beat and keeps fighting, swinging that sword lefthanded.
However, a couple seconds later, something else does seems to bother him.
"Hanna, wait! It's okay, I can still win-"
His sword leaps from his hand by some unseen force and swings once through open air, leaving behind a glowing white trail. The trail rapidly expands until it forms what you recognize as a portal, and then Kase and his sword disappear from sight.
The kaiju roars and keeps stumbling around, wounded but not beaten, seemingly unaware that it's won the fight. Its back is bubbling furiously with lava and it's smashing random piles of rubble with its legs and tail, but the battle is over. There's no point in watching anymore, so you close the stream.
The remainder of the train ride is slow and tedious. There's nothing left to look at on your phone, so you look outside. A brief glimpse of fields and hills, some green and some torn apart by forces you can only guess at, then you're plunged into the darkness of a tunnel and can only faintly see brickwork whirling past the windows.
You are very bored.
Eventually you give up and get your phone back out. Do you have one thing you could do, so you find out what happened to that boy with the sword.
A sparse news story informs you that he teleported a long distance, perhaps by portaling to the other world and back, and then collapsed from exhaustion. After that, he was brought to a hospital. Somewhere in the very city you're currently heading towards.
Eventually, you do arrive at your destination. Eager to move finally, you stand and walk out with your dad.
What follows is a dreary and boring set of conversations and paperwork. You're asked to answer many questions and sign many papers. It does make sense, seeing as you're technically moving to another nation, and things are made as simple as possible.
Making things difficult for refugees doesn't make much sense in a world where the entire human species is equally under siege, from extraterrestrial invaders, from a parallel word, and from the planet itself. That's what it took for people to finally look past their differences and band together. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that those who did not failed to survive the past five years of apocalypse.
The first thing you and your father do once you're free to enter the city is go to your new apartment. It's pretty much just a small room with a tiny bathroom, kitchen, and a single bed, crammed into a cheaply constructed and drab building with many, many others, but it's enough. It's not long ago that refugees were given tents; at least you're inside.
Your dad has a new job, and your have a new school to go to, but for now you have some free time, a few hours before the sun sets and you have to go to bed.
What will you do?
* Go for a walk and explore a little of the city.
* Stay inside and try to amuse yourself somehow.
* Something else!
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Topic: [SG] Boring Girl Adventures! (Read 6487 times)