The Male Student (A Honkai Impact 3rd Fanfiction)

chapter 7: Our Understanding

'Let's begin.'

The boy coughed due to taking in the smoke of the fire, before he saw another volley of fire flying and now falling above him. He immediately dodged all of them, before seeing Parvati walking towards him with its hind legs. He side flipped with his one functional arm and watched as it falls to the ground with dust conjuring all over, causing the boy show his back against it while protecting his left arm. Seeing this as an opportunity, he painfully used his two hands to half sword once again before smashing through its head with the sword's cross hand guard. It let out a loud roar before he grabbed the sword out of its shattered helmet and climbed into it. Immediately, Parvati began to shake its whole body in an attempt to get him off, which resulted in the boy to immediately plan out to execute it as soon as possible. Using his burnt arm to hold on, he proceeded to lodged the sword deep into the shattered head.

A loud roar was heard, which made the boy's ears ring, before he saw the other two shooting off fireballs and ice blocks towards him, now disregarding the life of Parvati.

'Damn!' He immediately pulled the longsword out of the Honkai and grabbed his shortsword before he tried to dodge the projectiles. Unfortunately, he dodged all but one of the ice blocks.

The moment the ice had fallen into him, his whole body was suddenly frozen, and he was unable to move. The ice was tearing through his flesh, as he wanted to scream, but he couldn't. After a few seconds of excruciating torture, he broke free, his body releasing smoke all over his body due to the ice, with several small ice blocks latching onto him that immediately melted by the heat of the fire. By this point, the boy was on the ground on his left knee, severely weakened, as he held the ground with his left burnt arm while panting. His body felt both hot and cold, but it was all nothing but pain. A pain that he had experienced once, and it was extremely painful. Even his swords became ice and broke off.

Even so, he will not give up.

Slowly limping and eventually standing up, he realized that he was sandwiched between both Ganesha and the new Emperor Level Honkai, who charged up their roll. Despite the stinging pain ever still present in his whole body, he wanted to show that he was capable of fighting head on. With nothing but pure determination to hold them off as long as possible, he ran towards Ganesha.

And then, they dashed forward.

He, with incredible strength, held off a giant Honkai boar with his two bare hands, and when he saw the other charging towards him, he used his burnt hand to hold it in place. Now, it was nothing more than a battle of attrition, to see who could last. His strength was slowly waning from him, but he needed to hold them off.

'I'm not. . . Gonna lose. . .' His arms weakened slowly, as the two giant Honkai were getting closer to his body.

'Not gonna. . . Lose. . . . .'

"MAX!!!" Mei's voice echoed in his head. Initially, he thought it was a hallucination, until, in a split second, he saw something akin to three angels coming to his rescue, all armed with dangerous weapons, as he heard two explosions and the two Honkai Emperors flew a few feet away from him. The forest was still burning, but the three had came to his rescue.

'What. . . Timing. . .' the boy fell to his knees before he blacked out, before he was held by Kiana before he fell to the ground. She felt his whole body being in a strange mix of both hot and cold, which worried her greatly.

"Kiana-chan! Get him out of here!" Mei ordered. She nodded before carrying the boy out of the burning forest that was now being put out by the firefighters outside. The moment they saw Kiana carrying the unconscious boy, they immediately went into action, bringing the boy into the ambulance nearby the firetrucks, before she went back into the burning forest.