Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

C37: Pain Split - Twin-Saber Style Forbidden Technique!

There was madness in Kai's charge.

With the sabers almost hidden along his body's length, Kai locked Sparrow's figure with his round eyes. She didn't move. Behind her, Kai could feel the burst of Mana coming out of Cuckoo.

Whatever she was doing, it was refilling her Mana, Kai could tell.

Kai slithered, both his hands lifting, outstretching towards his left. Sparrow didn't even flinch.

One step more, and she would be in Kai's reach. Suddenly, Kai changed his direction. There was such a smoothness to his steps as if he was no creature of legs.

Only reptiles could have achieved such a feat.

Only a serpent could slither.

Under the shocked gaze of the masked woman, Kai jumped towards the mirror wall to his right. As he reached the broken edges, his body whirled like a tornado. The sabers kissed the mirror wall, and the mirror shattered with a boom.

Kiss of the Giant Serpent!

Imaginary mirror shards fell on the ground as he landed. But Kai's brows were pressed tight over his nose.

Behind the broken mirror wall, there was another wall. More mirror shards kept appearing, breaking in a never-ending cycle. He slowly turned around and looked at the woman named Sparrow.

"You done?" Sparrow asked, lifting her chin at him. "You have an Elementary Ability, I can tell. But I have seen many like you, overestimating themselves and then dying like flies. I hope you have learned something from this futile attempt of yours."

"I did," Kai said, pointing his saber at her. "I learned you are an ugly old cunt."

Kai's words failed to rouse Sparrow's fury. But the girl behind her had neither Sparrow's patience nor her wisdom.

"How dare you?" Cuckoo shouted. "How dare you use your filthy tongue for my aunt?"

Kai grinned. But his grin turned into a shocked silence. Cuckoo must have freed her hands, for she was pointing them at Kai now. Then Kai saw the most unreasonable scene. Her hands twisted into two semi-automatic pistols, both barrels aimed at Kai.

She fired.

The foreboding sense made Kai slither to his left, trying to put the masked woman in between him and the girl again.

Even then, he couldn't dodge all the bullets. It was too soon, too fast. One of the bullets just grazed his right thigh. The other lodged itself deep in his left shoulder, making him lose his balance.

Kai wondered how much pain he would have felt if it weren't for the Pain Factor.

He staggered, searching for balance that had become elusive to him. But this staggering had brought him out of Cuckoo's line of sight, too, and the woman, Sparrow, seemed too proud to move out of the way for the girl to have a direct line of fire.

Kai sniggered. What a fucking moron! He thought. She has the advantage of two versus one, and yet, she won't take it. Tch! Well, good for me.

If he couldn't run away, then there was only one way to live.

Kai buried the pain in his useless left shoulder and hacked at the woman. She effortlessly moved sideways, dodging the saber. Kai followed with his left saber, albeit rather slowly. She danced away from that too.

Then Kai smiled. Time after time, he kept hacking at her, and Sparrow kept dodging.

Cuckoo fired whenever she could in short bursts, but Kai never appeared in her line of sight again. Right, left, back, and forward, Kai slithered, hacking like a maniac as if he had no other way left to him.