Tsugi No Level

Chapter 19: Prime Perfect

Moments before the Prime Perfect landed near Demo, Ten and his family members were standing in front of the empty ship. His uncle had just checked the ship and found a problem. The uncle is looking around to see if he can find anything to make the ship work as Ten wants to know what exactly is wrong.

"What is the problem?"

"The ship doesn't have a core."

"A core?"

"Yeah, it's like the key to start it. Without the key, this is just a high-level piece of junk."

"We can't just H.R. a core?"

"You can, but the core and ship need to be a perfect match. Each sequence of the core needs to align with the ship. It's damn near impossible."

"So what are we going to do?"

His uncle lowers his head as if the situation has defeated him.

"I don't know."

As he says those words a Palindra warrior lands in front of the hanger door and looks at the three of them. His uncle looks at the warrior and then looks at Ten who is closer. In a low voice, he warns Ten.

"Don't move."

Ten seeing the panic in his uncle's face feels he needs to look behind him to see what his uncle is looking at. He sees the warrior and falls down out of fear, he takes his mother down with him as well. The Palindra doesn't say anything as he takes a step forward. The Palindra draws his sword and lets the sharp edge land on the ground. He drags it on the ground as he comes closer to Ten and his mother. The sound of the sword scratching the floor and closing in is making all of Ten's senses shut down.

His uncle knows that the moment he charges the Palindra they will all instantly die. He is trying to find a way to save all three of them. He is thinking about what the best possible steps are to escape this situation in one piece. Should they run away and see how far they can get? Should he charge the Palindra and let Ten and his sister escape? Should he Higher Reason something and use it as a weapon to fight the Palindra?

The warrior is now in front of Ten and his mother. He looks down at the two as a predator would its prey. He tightens his grip on his sword as he is about to attack. And it's right then when a sudden sound is heard coming from the Palindras transponder.

"Prime Perfect Zalthira Enitha Somnia"

The Palindra seems frozen in time for a moment. The sudden news was enough to startle him to the point of shaking for a few moments. He turns around and quickly runs out of the hangar and jumps into the sky. Ten and his uncle both watch him run away and jump into the sky. And in the far distance, they can see several black lines go into the sky as well. As if all the Palindra decided to retreat at the same time.

With the imminent danger having passed His uncle runs towards Ten and his mother.

"Are you ok?"

Ten slowly stands up and then helps his mother up as well.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

As they look outside to the shadows leaving their planet, they feel like the worst is over. A few moments pass and suddenly a gate opens up near them. As Ten looks at the gate, he sees Demo on the other side. He is surprised to suddenly see Demo again but also somewhat relieved. Demo jumps through the gate with a smile on his face.

"TEN!!!"

He shouts his name in excitement because the two haven't met for a while. The moment Demo is completely through the gate Li-On steps on the device that opened the gate. KetsuEki threw a quick glance at Li-On to show him that he saw what he did. He then continues the fight with the leader of the Palindra. After a few more exchanges KetsuEki puts a good amount of power behind his slash for the first time. The leader is surprised at the sudden change in power from KetsuEki. KetsuEki looks at the leader with a grin on his face as he approaches him.

"I know you can understand me. And it was a nice plan. Sacrifice yourself to save your people."

The leader looks at him shocked as he is now extremely worried about his people.

"What have you done?"

KetsuEki stands straight and looks at the leader with a look completely devoid of emotion. He kneels down and grabs a rock from the ground. He transforms it into a clone of himself.

"I sent myself to clean up the mess you made. Just imagine this but then with about 30% of my power. More than enough to take care of whatever you brought with you."

The leader loses himself in rage as he stands up screaming.

"KROMOR! (YOU BASTARD!)

As the leader rushes forward in anger the KetsuEki clones finish up all the Palindra that were on the planet. Each clone looks around to scan the area to make sure they didn't miss any hiding Palindra. Each clone puts their hand on the ground and sends out a wave of energy to scan the area. As the waves sent out by each clone collide on the ground it's a signal that the cleanup is finished. Each clone having finished places its hand on its chest and starts glowing. With a flash, they are reduced to a drop of blood that dissipates into nothingness.

While the real KetsuEki swings back to match the sword swung by the leader. KetsuEki enforces his sword with enough energy to break the leader's blade as they clash. And in one quick smooth motion, he turns his blade around to slash the leader's chest. The very moment KetsuEki's blade no longer touching the leaders skin he opens his umbrella to catch all the blood that is about to spill forth. The leader is hurt but feels that because KetsuEki is hiding behind his umbrella he can attack him while KetsuEki can't see. The leader gathers his last bit of strength to strike down KetsuEki and deliver his final blow. But before he can he notices that a shadow is being cast on him that is exponentially growing. He looks up and it's KetsuEki. He jumped up to deliver a final downward slash. The warrior screams in rage as he meets his final moments.

Right before the blade is about to cut the leader in two KetsuEki jumps back a great distance and grabs his umbrella as he jumps backwards. He places the umbrella in front of him to make sure no blood spatter touches him. The leader split in two and falls down. KetsuEki drops his umbrella and without breaking walks towards Li-On.

"Tril Li-On... Why would you do that?"

"He deserves more than to be a lab rat to those freaks at Central."

"Wasn't really your choice to make though."

"I know, but hey, I felt like this was for the best."

"Let me guess, you won't tell me where he is going either right?"

"Nah."

KetsuEki tilts his head a little unsure about what to do next. He then looks at the remaining pupils of the gym who are anxiously awaiting what the Prime Perfect will do. KetsuEki then starts laughing.

"Hhahahahah, well not much we can do about it now. If anyone asks, he was never here."

KetsuEki then looks at all the pupils there with a threatening look on his face. And he exudes an aura of death as he asks for verification.

"Understood?"

All the pupils shake their heads in accordance. KetsuEki smiles and walks towards Li-On jovially.

"Trilly, let's go get a drink."

"You do know the planet is basically half destroyed right?"

"Then let's just go to the other half."

Chapter 19 Fin