A Cancer Brewing in Kyoto

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

Name: A Cancer Brewing in Kyoto
Participants: Kazura, Irine, 2 Other UE Characters Welcome
Location: Start out in UE Tower. Then Kyoto, Japan
Difficulty Level: Hard
Setting: NDE

Plotline: Japan is one of the nations of the human world that seems to always be plagued by spiritual attacks yet the former capital of Japan rarely suffers from anything extreme like Karakura Town. However, it's mid day now and only a few minutes ago Kazura received a phone call from his employee Takara Takeda informing him that she has picked up a massive reiatsu signature beneath the city that feels hungry. As such UE will be disembarking to handle the situation with whoever is currently available.

Estimated Enemy Strength: Class 4-2
Estimated Time Until Completion: Page 5-?
Starts: Whenever Kazura posts his reaction to the phone call.
Special Conditions: Rewards are possible and will be scattered throughout this adventure. However, greater rewards come from higher risks so it's up to you all.

[Kazura Uzaki]

Ring ring

Yes, his ringtone was boring, shut up.

Kazura heard the tone from his desk as he scribbled some random design for something random on a scrap piece of paper. He picked up the phone to see Takara's name scrolling across the caller id. It was rare for her to call him, so something must be up. "Go for Kazura. Oh? Mmmhm... I see. We'll get a team on it right away." He left the design on his desk and got up out of his office. As he walked down through the halls on the way to the elevator to the helicopter pad on the top of the building, he pulled aside any Spiritual employee that he could find on the way.

He didn't send out a mass text this time, but pulled aside people individually and invited them to the possibly dangerous mission. As it was earlier in the day, most of his employees should be somewhere in his path if they wanted to be. Especially since he was radiating an aura of ferocity. Japan was under attack from... something. It wouldn't take long to get to Kyoto, so he had to be serious now. There was no time to build up to it. He had to be serious from the get go and get ready to act fast as soon as they skydove from the helicopter into the city outskirts.

Who would answer his Aura and join him on this mission?

[Irina Davayte]

Clacking away at a keyboard merrily, it suddenly struck Irina that she was doing exactly what she'd always wanted: helping people, using math. And, as a bonus, without interacting with too many people. She hadn't yet finished her engineering degree, but already, she had found a niche to work pretty much exactly the way she had always planned. Her latest project at UE was tracking Hollow attacks with data as far back as possible, up to the present. She hoped this could be applied to prevent future attacks, or at least respond to them more quickly. Irina had always loved spreadsheets, and was delighted to be using them for something practical.

Still, her desk in the warm room lacked the bit of adventure she had constantly been seeking since childhood. So naturally, when Kazura, looking rather urgent, asked her to come along on a dangerous mission, she happily agreed. She calmly replied "Of course," before quickly saving her work and tagging along. Her facial expression remained relatively neutral, but her heart danced with joy to get out of the office today. Due to several recent life-threatening events, Irina was growing out of her foolish, youthful fearlessness, but she remained eager to help where she was needed. Anyway, she always felt safe with Kazura around.

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”God I’m hungry.” Luke complained as his stomach let out a growl, causing his stomach to stink with soreness and prompting the man to rub his stomach. ”I hope the cafeteria has something good. Went and forgotten my fuckin lunch..” he complained, closing his eyes as he prayed that the food was especially good today. ”That’s what happens when you stay up all night watching porn.” he heard in his head, causing him to open his eyes and twitch his left eyebrow.I hate you.

In truth, Luke had been out all night in the city. He’d been chasing a Hollow that had a particularly annoying stealth ability for hours, and when he finally found it and took it down, he was surprised to find how tired he was. His inability to need as much sleep as others seemed to be...gone. He couldn’t explain it, honestly. Did he lose the ability? Maybe his increase in power and strength resulted in his body needing more rest again? Couldn’t explain it. Didn’t really matter though. Because of that mess up Luke ended up sleeping late, being late to work, and not having enough time to make his lunch.

What’s more, his day work as a Manager when nothing was going on put him even further to sleep. He was acting as Manager to UE’s task force, the response unit that would arrive on scene whenever something bad happened. The companies equivalent to fire fighters but instead of fires it was invisible monsters or assholes with powers. He was the manager of a team of only two members. Still, didn’t mean he could avoid reading their reports and doing his other work.

As Luke walked down one of the many halls in the facility, imagine his surprise to suddenly feel a hand on his shoulder. Grouchily, the Bount wiped his head around and irritatingly growled a ”What the hel—M-Mr. Uzaki!” Luke basically gagged, blinking and adopting a goofy “oh I fucked up” face before he got a read on the situation. ”Of course. Give me ten minutes and I’ll meet you.”

Ten minutes to grab a sandwich and do something just as important. When he met up with Kazura, Irina, and whomever else would be with them, they would probably be confused who had just shown up. Luke had...gotten into uniform. Well, “uniform” was one way of putting it. It was the same outfit that he had worn when he faced the Quinta Espada with Marcus. A black bikers jacket with a red scarf and that stupid fucking bikers helmet, but underneath the unzipped jacket was the armor that he had bought from Uzaki’s a while back. His tempered uchigatana at his side, though carrying swords in Japan was technically illegal. He was wearing his “Rider” outfit. He had finally decided on a name for this, uh, outfit and decided to go with Rider as a code name. Jager would never shut up about just how stupid Luke’s entire outfit and name was. Windstarke just sounded embarrassed.

[Vesta Zweig]

Vesta was walking the halls of Uzaki Enterprises, on her way to one of the offices. She also liked to slightly wander around the halls, seeing what was actually in the building and trying to find out where everything was in case she ever needed to find a certain place. People walking by would see her irises flash to white for maybe a second or two before they would revert back to her normal shade infrequently. This was Death looking at something that had caught her interest before becoming immediately disinterested again.

Zorn was also taking in his surroundings as well, trying to remember where things were as well in case he needed to run there. He was also trying to figure out all possible exits in case they needed to leave in a hurry. In her wanderings, Zorn tells her to stop, well more like yelling, and she stops abruptly. She focuses and notices that she almost bumped into Kazura Uzaki. She blushes slightly before saying, "Sorry! I guess I wasn't really paying attention to where I was going Mister Uzaki." She slightly bows her head before he touched her shoulder.

She stared at him while he was explaining what was going on and nodded after he was done. "Of course! I'll meet with you soon!" He walks off and she immediately digs through her bag to make sure that she has what she thinks she might need for this mission. She grabs one of the many snacks in her bag (some corn chips this time) and walks out to meet whoever else might be there. She sees Kazura, but also another woman who she hadn't met before and someone that was wearing a biker helmet?

Who in there right mind would wear a freaking biker helmet on a helicopter, or for that matter, anywhere else besides on a motorcycle? She walked up to the small group and would lightly poke the stranger in his side. "Um... excuse me whoever you are, but why in the hell are you wearing a biker helmet right now? Do you plan on following the helicopter in a motorcycle or something? Or! Are you just so extremely ugly you don't want to show you face and you wear the helmet to hide your hideousness?"

[Kazura Uzaki]

Irina, Vesta, and Luke answered Kazura's summons. This would be a good team. He had his trusted Manager, his marathon buddy, and someone who had pressured him to use his ultimate technique in their training. This would be a good team, if they could get past some of the past history between them all. Irina and Luke had gotten off to a terrible first impression, if they remembered that, and Vesta seemed to think that Luke's outfit was ridiculous. She had poked him in the side and ridiculed his outfit, at which Kazura barely stifled back a laugh. He himself was going to be wearing a similar outfit once they got there to hide his identity.

Kazura took a moment to select a few key items to take with him while his employees prepared themselves as well. He found his secret stash of gear and weapons in his office and used the Black Mark Seal technique to bind them to his body in various tattoos. A pair of guns, models UE1 and UE2, became a pair of windng snakes around his right index and right middle finger. A few magazines of spiritual bullets and explosive bullets became a winding double snake on his left index finger. His MK I Elemental Fire suit became a tattoo of a great white shark up his left arm from the elbow to the wrist. He sealed his Helm MK III into his right hand as an pentagram tattoo on the palm. And finally, he sealed his sword Raurhak into his left hand as a snake eating its own tail on the palm. Not sealing it, but taking it with him anyways, was a pair of Spiritual Handcuffs.

Ready to go, Kazura walked back out of his office to see the team assembled up to the roof. There, they'd get on a helicopter bound for Kyoto. "This will be dangerous, and might be more than we can handle, since there is no real data available on whatever it is going on in Kyoto. So we are there to observe first and foremost and deal with the threat if possible. If necessary, we'll retreat and come at this threat with a greater force. But I have confidence in the four of us to be able to handle whatever may come our way. Now, let's move out. Any questions as we proceed?" The helicopter wouldn't be a very immediate form of travel, so they had time to talk among themselves on the way.

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{Items}

Item Name: (Raurhak)

Item Type:: (Weapon - Sword)

Item Rank: (A)

Creation Skills: (Swords at 3)

Item Description: (Raurhak is unusual sword. It appears to be a standard longsword, with total length of one hundred and twenty centimeters from pommel to tip and length of the blade being exactly one meter. Hilt and guard are golden, while the blade of the sword is actually pitch black. What is special about Raurhak are its properties. It is a rather special sword. Its edge is so sharp and so thin that it it appears to be semi transparent for a whole inch. The edge of Raurhak is specially designed to be incredibly thin so it can cut between spiriton or atom bonds. Therefore, such sharpness allows something special. It allows Raurhak to cut into those bonds and by doing so, ignore certain defenses. Namely, Raurhak bypasses cutback and flex defenses. It simply will act as if they are not present. However, it has no additional effect against anything else, and has one weakness. Against layer defenses, including but not limited to Hierro and Blut, it has 25% less cutting power.)

Item Name: Spiritual Handcuffs MK I
Item Rank: B
Item Type: Weapon
Item Description: This ordinary looking set of handcuffs is made up of barely spiritual metal, and inside is a vacuum fan as well as an inequality in reiatsu. This functions much like the reiatsu batteries, but for a much different purpose. The smaller size of the storage area means that no reiatsu is actually lost when a spiritual being has been locked by them, however it does resonate with their own reiatsu strength and turns it against them. This model is capable of reaching a Reiatsu Strength of 150, like the Reiatsu Battery MK I. If the victim has superior RS than 200 by any margin, then they are easily able to break out. If not, then they must rely on physical force or skill to escape the lock, requiring superior strength to the reiatsu strength of the cuffs.
Price: 7500

Item Name: Elemental Suit: Fire MK I (All parts purchased)
Item Rank: A
Item Type: Armor
Item Description: While the aesthetics to this suit may vary depending on the purchaser's desires, one thing remains the same. Equipped to the back of this thick armored suit is a large backpack with the Uzaki Enterprises Logo emblazoned in large print. This backpack has two compartments side by side that have the ability to store large glass tanks, sold separately. While the physical defensive ability of the suit hasn't changed, capable of absorbing 150 strength worth of damage before the wearer is harmed, what has changed is the increased offensive ability. The ability to set one's self on fire.

Inside the glass tanks is Napalm, a substance that burns at around 800 degrees and is capable of vaporizing water on contact. It is a difficult substance to extinguish, and this suit is capable of secreting it through specialized pores and then igniting them to cover the entire torso and legs on fire, safely. The wearer is kept cool by a system of chilled water through the layers of steel, chilled by a unit set between the tanks of napalm. Overall this suit is quite weak to attacks from the back, which is why it has extra armor that can absorb up to 200 strength worth of damage. Each tank of napalm is capable of keeping the wearer ignited for ten posts total throughout a thread, and this model is equipped with two tanks.

Overall, while this suit may have a combination of good defensive and offensive abilities, it does come at a drawback. It is heavy. Extremely so. Wearers with less than 200 strength will be tired more significantly while they use it, and those with less than 100 will find that their movement speed is hindered by 50% while the stamina taxing effect is greatly exacerbated. The MK I, which is unpowered, is not currently friendly to those who are not strong of body.
Price: 60,000 (Suit) - 15,000 (Gauntlets Addition) - 10,000 (Boots Addition)

Item Name: UE1 Handgun
Item Rank: C
Item Type: Weapon
Item Description: This fashionable weapon is made out of stainless steel and coated with a protective resin. Self proclaimed the best handgun in its class for its price, it boasts a penetrating strength of 300 and a bullet velocity of 600. It equips basic handgun ammo that can be purchased in any human world store, and it built for versatility. The magazine is well oiled to slide out easily and without trouble but is also manufactured to not easily disengage on its own. The front of the barrel is equipped with a slot for optional attachments, which are sold separately. It can hold ten bullets per magazine.
Price: 5,000


Item Name: UE2 Handgun
Item Rank: B
Item Type: Weapon
Item Description: This weapon builds on the functionability of the UE1 model and adds combat power. The attachment slot is still present as in the other model, which allows it to maintain its claim of being a highly versatile weapon for both law enforcement and private use. The UE2 has a penetrating strength of just 200, but it has a bullet velocity of 650 speed. The magazine holds twelve bullets, an even set of three. This increase in magazine size is important due to the handgun's ability to fire in a burst setting. One pull of the trigger will fire three bullets in quick succession. It can be turned from burst to semi-auto firing with a selector on the side.
Price: 7,500


Item Name: Spiritual Bullet x30
Item Rank: D
Item Type: Ammo
Item Description: This bullet is lined with a thin wire of spiritual steel. For ten reiatsu per bullet, the user can charge it and allow it to hit spiritual targets. It will fail against any spiritual defense. The power of the bullet is based on the gun, but it cannot exceed 300 strength or 600 speed or the wires will short out, making it unable to hit spiritual targets.
Price: 50 per bullet


Item Name: Explosive Bullet x30
Item Rank: D
Item Type: Ammo
Item Description: This bullet is lined with a small center of explosives. Upon impact, the small bullet will explode, causing a small amount of shrapnel and a small amount of heat. The bullet is capable of blasting a three inch hole into concrete, and a slightly bigger hole into flesh. This bullet cannot accept spiritual energy, or it will burst inside the weapon.
Price: 100 per bullet

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It was thanks to that helmet, and Luke’s ability to keep himself under control, that Vesta didn’t realize just what her words were doing to the man. Underneath that tinted visor was a man who was on the verge of breaking down into tears. Luke’s face had scrunched up, his face red like a tomato and tears threatening to break free. What the hell was wrong with Vesta that she would say things like that? ”AHAHAHAHAAGHAHAHAHAHA!!” Jagers laughter was practically drowning out every other sound. Luke even heard, amidst the belly rolling laughter, was Windstarke snickering as well. They were both laughing at him, making it even harder for Luke to keep himself from crying out of embarassment.

The only visual sign Luke reacted at all to what Vesta said was by him tilting his head downwards a tad, his arms crossed against his chest, as he desperately sought a way to take back the situation. ”You’d be better off not disrespecting your Manager like that, Vesta Zweig. If you focus you should be able to recognize me without needing to see my face. I’ll let it go this time.” Luke replied, putting on a cool and professional facade despite the fact he was on the verge of tears and wanting to kill his own Dolls. Uncrossing his arms, Luke neared the helicopter more and gave a silent nod of greeting to Kazura and Irina.

Getting into the plane, Luke ended up sitting next to Vesta. Removing his helmet and resting it in his lap, revealing to Vesta just who it was beneath the mask, Luke decided to press for more information when Kazura finished relaying what he had to say. ”I’ll ask the obvious question then. Takara Takada is already there, right? What’re we in for? What sort of problem are we jumping into?” Luke asked, his brown eyed gaze locked onto Kazura.

[Irina Davayte]

On the roof, a redheaded young woman was berating a helmet-wearing guy for his choice in headgear. "...Do you plan on following the helicopter in a motorcycle or something? Or! Are you just so extremely ugly you don't want to show you face and you wear the helmet to hide your hideousness?" Well, Irina had seen some pretty strange things around here lately, and wouldn't rule out either possibility. When Vesta was through, Irina would jump in as if nothing had happened. "Hi, my name's Irina. Nice to meet you both," she said, flashing them both a polite smile and reaching to shake their hands. Getting along with Vesta wouldn't be a problem. Irina could handle hot-headded young women; she was one herself, not too long ago. Lately though, she was decidedly cool.

They boarded the helicopter, and Luke removed his helmet, revealing that he was neither planning to follow the helicopter by motorcycle, nor ugly. "Oh good, we're bringing the rude grocery store guy," Irina thought when she recognized him, instead of saying it out loud, which she would have had she been any younger. Really, at twenty-one years old, she had pretty much grown out of being so snarky, but something about this guy rubbed her the wrong way. She had never actually needed to interact with Luke at UE before. She vaguely remembered running into him at some sort of meeting, but she better remembered meeting him in a grocery store when she was sent to try to recruit him to UE. She couldn't remember precisely what he had said to make her not like him, but she was pretty sure it was something about leaving him alone, and some swearing or something? Well then, she'd leave him alone. Manager or not, Irina insisted on being spoken to with respect. Since she had already decided that Luke would not be respectful, she'd just avoid interacting with him as best as she could.

The cabin of the chopper was uncomfortably warm, at least for Irina. She was known to turn down the thermostat in the office when everyone else felt fine, so it was probably not as hot for everyone else. She settled in, occupying the seat across from Vesta. She considered producing some snow from her hands, as she liked to practice at home. Her cat was particularly fond of chasing after the little snowballs she tossed around for it. Despite the present company being unlikely to be freaked out by this power, she decided against it, instead, just putting her hair up in a high ponytail to get it off of her neck. Like always, her hair smelled like her mint-citrus shampoo.

Luke asked the question she was wondering before she could, so she quietly waited for more details. It suddenly occurred to Irina that she should maybe start asking more questions before jumping into situations. One of these days, she could really get in over her head. Still, it sounded like Kazura was planning to treat this as a recon mission if things looked too bad, so she still wasn't worried.

[Vesta Zweig]

Vesta was poking at this man's chest, still wondering who it was. She couldn't sense anyone spiritually, so she usually had no idea what breed of powers someone had until they either told her their powers or she saw the release for herself. So, she didn't even think to try to use any of her other senses besides her eyesight and honestly, who would use any senses besides their eyesight anyway?

Whelp, once the man spoke, she immediately knew who it was. Why in the hell was Luke wearing that ridiculous get up? It seemed like it would be too much of a hinder while he was working. Then again, maybe it was made of some special fabric that made him jump better or something like that. Either way, Luke begins to chastise her about disrespecting her manager. Manager? When in the heck did she get a manager? She felt Death's indignation at this comment rise up, but she kept a handle on it.

He then told her that she should be able to recognize him if she focused. How was she supposed to do that, use his scent? A little light bulb went off in her head for that. She had personally never tracked anyone by scent before (Zorn liked to do that however), but since he said it, once he turned to enter the helicopter, she would lean in real quick and get a big sniff. She leaned her locket close in the hopes that Zorn might be able to pick something up as well.

It was probably one of the weirdest things she's ever done, but he was the one that said it. After she leaned back and returned to her standing position, trying to remember the smell, the woman walked up to her and introduced herself. "Hello Irina, my name is Vesta! It's a pleasure to meet you as well!" She would extend her hand out to shake the other woman's.

She seemed rather nice, so Vesta smiled at her while she found a seat next to Luke in the helicopter. He took off his helmet and it was Luke, like she thought. Once the helicopter took off, however, she was immediately captivated by the view that she was getting. She had only ever flown and airplanes mostly fly in the clouds. This was the first time that she was actually able to see things from a bird's eye view. She smiled when she was able to see her house from there and then they were out of Karakura and Kazura started to talk about the mission.

It seemed like they were just going to observe whatever in the world was going on in Kyoto and then if possible, dealing with it. It would be the first time that she's got to work with Luke side-by-side and she felt a little nervous about it. Also working with the CEO of their company was nerve wracking as well. Luke then asked some pretty interesting questions, which she wanted to know the answers to, but she had another question as well. "Mister Kazura, when did I get a manager? Did I miss a memo or something?"

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

The chopper hadn't been going for very long as the mission team to go to Kyoto had assembled. They had been flying for a few moments when suddenly Kazura's phone would ring once again. Although he had been being addressed by the others on the chopper once he looked at his phone he would see that the number was Takara once again. Once the leader of UE answered his phone he would hear Takara on the other line. "Took you long enough to answer. You need to get to Kyoto right away. I've gotten to the source of what I felt. It's beneath Studio Park in Kyoto. What I'm sensing though isn't all though. Everyone in the park Kazura is spiritually aware of some sort. Something is definitely going on here. I'll wait for you to get here before I investigate further. Just hurry though I have a feeling it won't be long now before an attack of some kind starts." Kazura would be able to hear a large crowd in the background of the call while Takara had been speaking. Now with the specific location though locating and investigating what Takara had picked up as a danger would at least be more refined. Hopefully though the chopper would get them there quick enough.

Just as the phone call was nearly the end though Irine, Vesta and Luke would be able to see something off in the distance. It was a small object in the air in fact there were two of them that seemed to be coming after them! This wasn't good as they got closer the group would be able to see that there were two Hollows chasing after the chopper. One looked like a type of bug perhaps a bee of some kind with stinger like arms while still possessing a massive one in the standard spot. The other Hollow though looked like a large chinese dragon with a bad attitude. As they got close enough to realize that they were Hollows the both would suddenly attack. The dragon firing off a large cero the size of a semi truck while the bee fired off dozens of small bala towards the chopper. It would only take a few moments for the attacks to reach the chopper as the Hollows were now within a hundred feet of them all.

[Kazura Uzaki]

Just as Kazura was about to answer Luke that he didn't have very much other information about what they were getting into, his phone started to ring again. It was Takara. Placing her on speakerphone wouldn't do much over the roar of the helicopter, so he patched the call into his headphones so he could hear better. He echoed what she said to the rest of the team. "Something beneath Studio Park. Everyone in the park is spiritually aware. Some sort of attack imminent." As if on cue, a hollow attack streaked towards the helicopter. Having some energy sensory would help Kazura realize what was coming at them before it was too late to react.

Kazura's right arm suddenly transformed as he willed the soul of his secondary fullbring to take shape as the titanium limb. Luke and Irina had seen this before, but Vesta hadn't yet. Placing his hand on the back of the helicopter, he poured nanobots into the inner workings and fortified the chopper with his Spiritual Pressure for durability. "All power diverted to the rear deflectors!" Yes, Kazura was that kind of nerd sometimes. It came with the territory of being an inventor that was fascinated with science fiction and making the imaginary into reality. Anyways, the Cero and Bala would crash into the fortified helicopter and should be stopped. Or at least weakened to the point where the team would be able to react to the dragon and the bee while still airborne. For now.

Remaining Reiatsu: 9,700/10,000 (-300 Secondary Fullbring)
Secondary Fullbring: 1/8

[Irina Davayte]

Kazura, quoting Star Wars and almost seeming to enjoy the challenge, seemed to have fortified the helicopter, so Irina turned to the others. She pulled her Fullbring, which could transform into a sword of ice, from her backpack. She felt there was no sense in getting out sharp objects if there was a chance of a crash, so she left it inactivated. "Everyone okay? You should probably put your helmet back on," she addressed Luke with the second part dryly. "I'm going to check on the pilot," she said just before the Cero and Bala would hit the aircraft.

She popped her head in the cockpit. "Hi, my name's Irina. I didn't get a chance to introduce myself earlier. I'm a military brat; my dad used to fly when I was little." She didn't know anything about flying, but figured someone should be there with the person who was trying to keep them all alive. After her brief introduction, she would assess whether there was anything she could do to assist their pilot. Sure, she knew that all pilots liked to say that their job was easy, but she was pretty sure that was not actually the case. She supposed the odds that he (or she) was spiritually aware were slim, so they might not even be able to see what was coming at them.

[Vesta Zweig]

Vesta was sitting in the helicopter, listening to everything that was said. So, an entire park of spiritually aware people was the epicenter of some kind of thing going on, which was more than likely an attack. Vesta thought she saw something off in the distance but she couldn't tell what it actually was. Some flying thing for sure. She looked back towards the rest of the group and Kazura had a titanium limb. Her eyes slightly bugged out at that, but he then quoted something from Star Wars.

She smiled at that, actually getting the quote, before he touched the helicopter and it shook with the force of something. She looked back outside and noticed that those things were getting closer and squinting, she could make out white faces. Hollows. She hadn't seen a flying one before, but it made sense, since it seemed like all hollows were based off animals. She couldn't think of what to send out after them, Zorn couldn't fly so that was a no no. She felt Death poking in the back of her brain to be let loose.

The only downside with that is that Death was only out for a short amount of time. She didn't know how long her long range would be needed and since the helicopter didn't get destroyed from the initial attack, she would look outside of the helicopter, grabbing the ring that's around her finger and twirling it around, knowing that that is where her chains hide now and how she got Death in the first place. She would wait until the hollows got close enough, release Death and attack.

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”I can feel the scowl in her voice.” Jäger commented when they heard Takara’s voice broadcasted across Kazura’s speakerphone. Luke held back some laughter and didn’t his facial expression show that he was actually entertained by what Jäger said. However he didn’t fail to listen to what was said. Luke’s brown eyes focused on the phone as he listened to Takara’s report on the situation. Studio Park? A mass gathering of spiritually aware people? ”Mass sacrifice or ghost orgy is what I’m putting my money on.” Shut up you idiot. But why would there be a gathering specifically made up of spiritually aware people? Maybe Jäger was onto something when he made the joke about a mass sacrifice. Not a orgy. No. Never.

But as Luke thought about it, he suddenly became aware of two signatures of reiatsu coming from behind them. He blinked when he could visually see them, and quickly realized that they were being pursued by two Hollows! Kazura was the first to move to action, using his Fullbring to fortify the rear of the helicopter to withstand the incoming reiatsu attacks. The two attacks colliding with the helicopter would cause it to shake a little, but thankfully it would seem that Kazura’s abilities were more than capable of blocking the attack. "You should probably put your helmet back on." Irina would say to Luke. ”Already on it.” He’d reply back before slipping his helmet back on and getting to his feet.

”I’ve got it covered.” Luke would say to the crew as he stepped to the edge of the cabin and looked out behind them to see the two Hollows. Quickly grabbing a safety cable and attaching it to himself, he returned to the edge. ”You’re not gonna..” Jäger would begin to say, just before he leaned forward and dived out of the copter. But instead of falling, Luke would quickly grab onto the landing skid on the side he jumped out of to just dangle them. Luke could feel his heartbeat going insane and a obsessive sense of excitement building up inside him.

Lifting his left arm up, the wrist watch he wore on his wrist would suddenly begin glowing with a blue light. ”Ziege Dich.” he would say, invoking his release phrase, and causing the wrist watch he wore to explode into blue light. The light would pull the watch free and cause it to transform into an entirely new form. Hanging in the air in front the Bount was something best described as a bird. It was about six feet in height with a wingspan of thirteen feet. While it was clearly in the shape of a bird it possessed no flesh or feathers. Its body seemed comprised entirely of ice except for what looked to be a metallic skeleton from which that ice grew. But its appearance was deceitful. That metallic looking structure was ice as well. A single horn of ice extended from its beak, and two glowing blue eyes focused themselves intensely on the duo of Hollows that were approaching.

”You know what to do?” Luke would ask, having to yell to be heard over the wind and chopper blades. ”Yes. I wish you’d have said something first.” Windstarke complained for a moment before folding his wings against his body and diving forwards. Once he was past the helicopter the Doll would spread open his wings to brake himself and halt his progress. But as he spread his wings he would unleash the arctic fury he had in store for those two Hollows. The winds were released at their full width, which would easily catch the two Hollows that were approaching and, unless they were actually strong, blow them away with little to no issue.

Luke's Remaining Reiatsu: 3600 / 4000
-400 for Doll Release

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{Windstarke's Stats}
Windstärke | Genius


Strength - 100 - 67 Points

Speed - 300 Points

Spiritual Pressure - 300 - 750 Points

Reiatsu Strength - 400 - 1000 Points

Light Aura - 50 Points

Dark Aura - 50 Points

Instinct - 150 Points

Senses - 150 Points

Energy sensory - 125 - 312 Points

Healing Expertise - 75 - 51 Points


Total SP: 1600 Points

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

The distance attacks that were used by the Hollows that followed after the helicopter didn't possess the brute force to inflict damage onto the helicopter after Kazura altered the machine with his Fullbring doing his duty as the leader of the assignment and company as a whole by protecting his employees. The employees didn't have any problem dealing with the threat of attack even while they were flying through the air. Most of them getting ready to counter attack against the Holllows. As Luke sent out his Doll and the entity of wind flew past the helicopter then prepared to stop the Hollows that was when . . . they retreated?

This wasn't normal. Hollows didn't typically act in such strategic ways yet both Hollows the moment that they saw Windstarke flew through reality slipping out of the human world in order to evade danger. It was unclear how the Hollows had found them so quickly unless the both of them had simply been in Karkaura and come after the group of spiritual entities. This was't right though. It would feel like the Hollows had been sent to deal with them before they reached Kyoto. If that was the case then just what was happening in Kyoto? Who was behind it and what were they doing that was so important they had taken such tactical precautions. What would they do now though and would anything else happen before they reached Kyoto?