"Where Am I?"
Oka voice rung out in a empty white void, vast and endless. Memories of the battle against Kuro flooded her mind and she hung her head low, realizing that she was in place of non-existence.
"Isn't this quite the surprise. I didn't expect a side character of my own story to appear here. Maybe things will be interesting"
It wasn't a voice that spoke, it was the very white expansion itself.
Confusion crossed Oka's face and she looked around to find the source, though her search failed as nothing could be seen in her immediate vision.
"Who's there?!"
She called out in urgency and subtle fear, pondering if there was another lifeform in a place that did not exist.
"You can hear me? Even better. I am what you would call a god, though through some extreme circumstances my mind and body has been separated but my essence lives in this realm of non-existence. To put it simply, you've reached a point beyond the story."
"Beyond the story? wait, you called me a side character. Does that mean...?"
"Yes, Kuro Nasaki is my avatar but the Kuro Nasaki that sent you here isn't the original avatar. Just watch from here on out, it'll be interesting."
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"We've recently received reports that Oka and Riyah have been M.I.A. Our satellites revealed pictures of a man by the name Kuro Nasaki to be the culprit. We also suspect that he's the reason the golden gate appeared."
A man in a black suit stated to a group of people sat within a round table. These people nodded in silence, absorbing the information and taking a moment to pray for their best weapons.
"Kuro Nasaki, age 20, male, height is 5'8. He is a soul-class warrior but his sole core seems to be unknown. As of now, he's been sighted around the city of Ontario."
The man continued, giving a summary of Kuro's description yet unbeknownst to them, this Kuro was far from the one they were looking for.
"Send out the fifth celestial knight to handle this."
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The Original Kuro sat alone on the edge of a rooftop just on the outskirts of his alternate home town, Ontario City.
"Ahh, so he killed them. I didn't think he'll have it in him, well I guess he is ME after all. Just as expected"
The Original Kuro exclaimed with a mischievous grin, his calculating gaze observing the horizon which held barely seen distant cities.
"Oh my~ I didn't expect one of you to come confront me so soon. To what do I owe the pleasure, Michael~"
The Original Kuro uttered out in a teasing tone, his words filled with hidden sadism, turning his head just slightly to side eye the new arrival.
"Kuro Nasaki, I have been talked with eliminating you"
The new arrival introduced as Michael stated in a calm manner, the barely audible sound of an unsheathing sword slipping away into the wind.
"Hm. I do need to test the cultivation strength in this universe."
The Original Kuro stated in a matter-of-factly tone of voice, slowly standing up from his sitting position and turning to face his new adversary who dared to challenge him.
"Okay Fifth Celestial Knight, show me what you can do"
With those words of declaration from Kuro, Michael had already sped forward with no wasted movements.
Kuro lifted both his arms in a blocking gesture just as Michael fist attempted to make contact with his face, launching both of them off the rooftop and leaving both them airborne.
"Hey~ not bad"
Kuro stated with the same mischievous grin, pushing against Michael's fist and opening the guard, wanting Michael to take the bait which the celestial knight did.
Whilst airborne, Michael retracted his fist and preformed an axe kick by flipping himself forward, attempting to bring Kuro down to ground level.
Unfortunately, it was narrowly avoided and Kuro responded with a hook that landed directly on Michael's ribcage.
Quanti-Soul Art #9: Biological Enhancement
Michael spat out a glob of blood before he was flung to the side, through two buildings, then into the ground with a thunderous impact, uplifting debris and dust.
Kuro on the other hand, guided himself to land on a nearby rooftop with elegant ease, slipping one hand into his pocket while the other subconsciously rubbed the back of his neck.
"What was your power again? Order? What does it even do?"
Order Magic Art #2: Restoration
Just as those words left Kuro mouth, he suddenly found himself airborne once again, with Michael in front of him.
This took Kuro by surprise which allowed Michael to land the previously missed axe kick, launching Kuro directly into the ground with an impact so powerful it created an impressively wide crater.
"I am the order within the chaos, my word is law and my will is absolute. That is my power"
Michael proclaimed while airborne, standing on the very air itself as if it was a platform. This was done my compacting the surrounding air molecules enough to keep his atomic structure afloat.
"Amazing! No wonder Shura was so powerful! Maybe I'll just take this power for myself"
Kuro exclaimed in a deranged tone of excitement and as the dust cleared, it revealed he was barely scratched by the strike, earning a disapproval 'tsk' from Michael.
"I invite you to try"
Michael stated in an open invitation to which Kuro gladly accepted, now in front of Michael with no indication of initial movement.
Then Kuro reached out with his right hand, clasping onto Michael's neck and in mere moments, Michael was being forcefully slammed through a metallic skyscraper.
Quanti-Soul Art #7: Magnetic Attraction
Once Kuro had breached the building with Michael's body, he released the grasp on Michael neck and leapt out the hole made in the building.
What Michael didn't expect was the lingering feeling of magnetization, though before he could get a clear feeling of it and dispersed the effect, the building collapsed inward and towards him in a compacting manner
On the outside, Kuro observed as the skyscraper collapsed in on itself from the strong magnetic attraction, that was applied to Michael's bio-field. The sheer scale of destruction had left a gaping hole where the skyscraper once stood tall, now there was a floating metallic ball airborne in the sky which Michael was within the center of it.
"This is thrilling!"
Kuro exclaimed loudly with a wide grin, lifting his left arm into the air to which the compacted metallic ball followed his movement, travelling higher into the air
Order Magic Art #5: Organization
Before Kuro's very eyes, the compacted metallic sphere had split into two halves, revealing an unharmed Michael in the center.
Then the two halves were straightened into thin sheets, cut evenly into four seperate sheets which made a total of eight thin metallic sheets.
Kuro raised an eyebrow at this display, until he was forced to leap from one rooftop to another, avoiding a speeding metallic sheet that crashed into the building he once stood on and utterly destroying it.
This initial attack was now followed up with the remaining metallic sheets being shot towards Kuro, who avoided by leaping far and onto other building rooftops.
Quanti-Soul Art #3: Electrical Field Control
Upon landing on another rooftop, Kuro took the opportunity to release the built up static electricity within his body. This resulted in an immense discharge of golden electricity, which were arched and guided towards the magnetized metallic sheets.
This had override control of the order magic that influenced these metallic sheets, which Kuro launched back towards Michael.
Michael looked on as Kuro pointed a finger gun gesture towards him, confusion evident on his face until he noticed the metallic sheets were launched back towards him all at once.
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Kuriko narrowly avoided another beam of nether energy upon closing the distance between him and Shura successfully.
Shura struck with a left hook.
Kuriko subtly titled his head and leaned with the hook, following the momentum and lashing out a butterfly kick that landed squarely on Shura jaw, sending her reeling into a wall.
Unfortunately, Kuriko had no time to celebrate and was forced to leap backwards, avoiding a speeding disk of condensed nether energy.
Shura was now on the offensive once again, though this time she was relentless with her fury of strikes, forcing Kuriko to only block and evade by a hair's length.
Then Kuriko found an opening in her stance, using his forearm to halt Shura's hook and lashing out with a gut wrenching vertical jab into her stomach.
Though before Kuriko could continue a follow up, Shura moved with a burst of speed that even Kuriko could not keep up with.
Her leg slammed into the back of Kuriko's knee, forcing him to stagger and kneel slightly, then her fist drove straight through Kuriko's chest.
The crimson liquid of blood had painted the ground in its color, spraying onto Shura's face and body like a fountain of water.
Kuriko eyes widened in shock, his azure blue eyes glancing down at Shura's subtly glowing arm that was protruding through his chest, blood trickling down the side of his lip and dripping into the already crimson soaked ground.
"You escaped me last time, now there's nowhere to run"
Shura states coldly, staring into the fading eyes of Kuriko with a satisfied grin.
"I wasn't running"
Kuriko stated as his shocked expression was replaced with a grin, then in a last ditch effort he extended his arm past Shura who followed his movement, only to realize no one was behind her.
Before she could retort to the mild distraction, she felt an attractive force so strong it was inescapable.
Original Spatial Art: Black Hole
By compressing space to the point where the concept of dimension became obselete, a singularity was created. Kuriko then moved this singularity through the physical dimension and across the spatial axis, forcibly dragging Shura towards the alternate Kuro who he referred to as 'K'.
This resulted in Shura arm being snatched out of his chest, to which Kuriko did the unthinkable next.
With his remaining breath, Kuriko transferred his magical essence into Kuro, which his soul core had forcibly rewrote reality to register this overwhelming power.
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"The Interference of the Morningstar had brung forth a forgotten concept. The concept of change beyond causality"