"Blood Sign: The Heiress"

Chapter fourteen - Meeting old friends.

The very next day, Hisoka, having gathered a detachment of the best of the best, abandoned them at the Daimei gate and ran to look for the target alone. Hyuuga, having known the guy for a long time, did not expect anything else, so he immediately followed him, watching from the shadows. After running through the forests for more than three hours, Hisoka was a little tired and decided to take a break. Sitting down on a stone, he took out a notebook and wrote a couple of lines in it. Suddenly, a quiet crunch was heard. Turning towards the sound, Hisoka saw only trees bare on the eve of winter and an empty, dense forest. Shrugging his shoulders, the guy returned to his notes. After some time, he continued on his way. After searching a little more than half of the Daimei's surroundings, Hisoka began to get angry.

-Well?! Stop hiding!" He shouted, raising his head to the sky. "Come out and fight me!"

Abandoning this pointless activity, Hisoka silently continued on his way. After some more time, the guy came across the site of the recent battle between Kaptur and Iona. Having looked around, Hisoka estimated the strength of the latter and wanted to fight with her even more. There was complete devastation all around, broken tree trunks, loose earth, dried karma and the smell of battle in the air. Looking around, Hisoka suddenly noticed a small path. A tiny, barely trodden line of earth led somewhere into the thicket. Smiling, Hisoka walked along the path and, making his way through the bushes, crawled out into a bare clearing. The path, however, continued on. Raising his head, Hisoka saw a mountain that towered above the entire forest and was amazing in its size.

"There you are." Hisoka whispered and continued walking along the path.

Soon, he had to walk uphill, and a little later, almost climb. Climbing onto a small "platform" of ice, Hisoka saw a shallow cave in front of him. Grinning, he looked around and walked towards the darkness. Having walked a little deeper into the cave, Hisoka began to hear the echo of his own steps and realized that the hole in the mountain was much deeper than he thought.

"Interesting..." the guy whispered and, with small, neat steps, continued walking.

Having walked about seven meters, no less, he heard a quiet sniffling. Realizing that the target was very close, Hisoka laughed hysterically and ran forward, growing a hammer from a growth on his right hand, something like quickly hardening karma, and on his head, a horn.

"Die!" Jumping up, Hisoka swung at Iona, who was sleeping on the cold ground.

As soon as the girl opened her eyes from the scream, she saw in front of her a huge, dark sledgehammer that Hisoka created on his own hand. Trying to pull back, Iona held her breath in anticipation of a terrible feeling that had not yet been studied by her - pain. But, instead of pain piercing to her fingertips, Iona only heard a ringing, sharp sound. Raising her head, the girl saw the back of a guy unfamiliar to her, he blocked the attack of Hyuga, who attacked from behind. Hisoka suspected something was wrong back in the forest, when he sat down to take notes, and now, in the cave, his suspicions were confirmed. They were watching him and were going to kill him. In fact, there wasn't even an attack on Iona, it was all a deception to lure Hyuuga out, and now Hisoka did it. Having blocked his opponent's attack with a growth on his hand, which was originally created to "attack" Iona, Hisoka, with a wave of his hand, pushed Hyuuga away from him.

"I knew it!" the first one shouted and ran towards the last one.

The horn that grew from his head grew noticeably larger, as did the growth on his arm. While avoiding Hisoka's numerous, chaotic attacks, Hyuuga tried to get a good look at Iona. Having paid for his inattention with his right eye, Hisoka cut the guy off, creating something like a blade from the growth on his left hand. Hyuga jumped back. Holding his wounded eye, the guy leaned on the spear and tried to get up, but Hisoka immediately rushed towards him and hit him in the stomach with his right hand. The blow was so strong that Hyuga flew out of the cave and, flying another couple of meters, hit many trees. Hisoku's horn grew larger and larger, and the growths on his arm became stronger and tougher. The guy turned to face Iona and examined her. Iona, in turn, appreciated Hisoka's strength while he was fighting Hyuuga, so she roughly understood what to expect. And, soberly assessing her chances, the girl decided to use the angel's armor. Her body began to slowly become covered with gray, durable armor. Noticing this, Hisoka rushed behind his opponent, making a sharp lunge. Anticipating this, Iona, in order to gain time, simply jumped over the guy and ran out of the cave. Turning around, Hisoka, seething with anger, chased after the girl. Running out into the street, Iona jumped onto a ledge that resembled a canopy at the entrance to a cave and sat down there. Right behind her, Hisoka burst out of the cave and, looking around, froze. The armor covered more and more, only a few seconds remained, when suddenly Hisoka turned sharply towards Iona, and, looking straight into her eyes, threw several needles at the girl. Covering herself with her hand, which already had armor on it, Iona responded to her opponent with a dozen tentacles. Those, breaking out of the hostess's cloak, tried to hurt Hisoka. Cutting them off with his left hand, Hisoka did not take his eyes off Iona. And she just waited until the armor was completely ready. And, as soon as this happened, the girl immediately removed all the tentacles and jumped straight onto the enemy. Taken aback by such harshness, Hisoka only managed to jump to the side. However, Iona was ready for this and immediately rushed after the guy. Having overtaken him, Iona found herself behind the enemy and, swinging with powerful blows, sent the guy back into the cave. Flying into a dark tunnel at full speed, Hisoka, hitting the floor and walls, lost all artificially added body parts. They simply could not withstand the impact of such a strong rock at such a high speed and, cracked, crashed. Somehow standing up, Hisoka staggered and muttered something. Only his horn survived, and even then it was broken. Iona entered the cave. Walking measuredly, she released several tentacles and asked: