Chapter 33 - Epic Entrance

# Chapter 33 - Epic Entrance

On the wall where Marc and Rofta climbed up, they saw the terrible destruction all around. This looked like a battlefield where thousands of soldiers have just battle out.

*Boom*

Their attention was drawn to a place covered in a wail of black dust all around, making it hard to see what's happening.

When the dust settled down and they could see what going on, they were at first confused because people were seemingly looking at a girl a few years older than them with blackish-purple hair and a scar across her chin and running over her nose.

"Do you know why they are looking at her like that?" While still looking at the girl, not understanding their reactions, he asked Rofta if he could figure it out.

"…I have seen that expression before. It's the expression people use when they are looking at a 'monster'!" Rofta had seen this behavior before, as he knows a person who gets this kind of treatment.

"Monster? Cool, but she doesn't look like one though, so let's meddle and take a closer look." He wasn't sure if Rofta was right, but Marc didn't really care as he was interested in what made people fear her.

"Fine, I also wanted to see how you have progressed after 6 months too. I'm sure you have been left behind me." The duo had another intention other than showing their 'righteous' hearts. Usually, it was Marc who's the first to challenge Rofta, but this time it was the other way around.

"Heee~" Marc just grinned before he suddenly jumped down from the wall making Rofta's bragging expression turn into utterly pure shock and showed fear when he realized Marc was pulling his arm. Before Marc jumped he left his sandals on the wall.

"FUCK YOU MARC!!!!" Rofta yelled as they were falling down from the wall.

…

"I don't want to die, please someone help me!" Gina felt her will to live and desperately wished in her mind while crying. She felt suffocated and wanted nothing more than to have the villagers stop looking at her as if she was a monster. They were still calling her 'devil' or 'devil's servant' and whatnot.

"Earth Spikes," Kasai said and his spell approached her.

"…I hate that I'm still hoping!" Was the last thing Gina thought before she closed her eyes, accepting her death.

When the spikes reached halfway between her and Kasai, something fell from the sky, landing directly on the spikes.

*Baaaam*

The fall sent a powerful shockwave towards everybody, but it wasn't enough to hurt anybody as they were out of range. Normal dust flew around the place, making it hard for people to see once again.

Two seconds later they felt something fall from the sky again, but no sound was made when it landed.

"Fucker, I'm going to kill you!!!" They heard someone yell inside the dust cloud.

"…Shush, shut up, and don't ruin our cool entrance!! Play along!" Then another shushed and tried to tell someone to keep quiet. But everyone heard it, including Gina who had opened her eyes after hearing the high sound.

When the dust settled a 3-meter wide paw crater was revealed with two people in it. A young kid and a middle-aged man.

"We have come. Two courageous heroes with honor and hearts bigger than mountains, here to end this massacre! I recommend backing off now or you will regret it! There's no need for this pointless slaughter…I swear to get to the bottom of who did it!" Marc said with a dramatic tone, looking like a little hero standing in a big monster footprint.

Silence, utterly silence was left after Marc stopped his improvised speech.

Kasai found time slipping away and was afraid reinforcements were coming. "Who are you, and what do you mean who did what?"

"Let me guess,..you did it?" Marc ignored the question and asked one instead.

"No?" Kasai felt something was wrong with this kid. Didn't he just destroy his spell and save the girl? So why is he asking that?

Marc nodded with understanding before he said "I knew you were the panty thief! You know the number 1 rule. If caught, never confess to anything!"

"…"

"…"

"…"

"-_-"

Kasai, Gina, and the villagers all looked at Marc as if he was an idiot. Can't he read the situation he's in? People are dying here. Rofta just tried to hide his presence with his hand in front of his face while chanting in his head "I'm not here, I'm not here, I'm not here…"

"Pfft," The silver-haired man beside Kasai couldn't help laughing, making Kasai's expression twitching.

*Boom* *swoosh*

Marc appeared in front of Gina in no time by using his feet to make shockwaves and seemingly glide over the ground.

"You don't look like a monster to me?" Marc muttered, but Gina heard it and was surprised how fast he was.

"Boost me with everything you got! Never mind the consequences, I will live, and that's all I matters." Ordered Kasai the laughing man, and he obeyed by touching his shoulder again. He had no intention of delaying things anymore.

"Multiply" Cracks began showing on Kasai's body with little blood seeping out. As for his mana, strength, and perception just got doubled to what it was in his peak, but his body was near breaking down as cracks began showing all around his body and face with a little blood seeping out.

"A buff?" Marc who saw what the silver-haired dude did had stars in his eyes, not feeling the danger Kasai radiated.

Rofta felt it though and was about to make the first move, but Marc beat him to it.

*Swoosh*

A boom and cracks sounded where Marc originally stood in front of Gina, leaving a pair of paw prints on the ground and a still stunned girl.

Marc who made his move appeared in the air, above Kasai, who just raised both his arms in an X to defend against a drop-kick.

*Boom*

When the heel and arms met, the wind was blown away from the two fighters, followed by cracks from under the feet where Kasai is standing.

"Good, now don't be in such a hurry. Let's take our time exchanging…panties?" Marc wanted to say Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards, but he has learned that not all his previous knowledge was…understandable for other people.

Then he felt his instinct tingling. The last month of his training he spent on experimenting with his Paw Magic, and he managed to mingle with his brainwaves that send information with the help of neurons in the brain. It shares and is the root of all our thoughts, emotions, and behavior. He's continually repelling brainwaves to speed them up, making his reaction and danger sense faster. Though not to an overwhelming degree as it's really dangerous to do. Marc named the spell *Panthera Disaster*, and the inspiration comes from the saying that elephants, leopards, and monkeys are said to be able to sense disasters before they occur. He chooses the leopard out of the three animals simply because it was the only one that has paws.

Kasai who saw Marc was in mid-air, wanted to take the opportunity to impale his calf by making spikes come out of his arms. But to his disappointment, Marc shot backward by repelling the air like two thrusters with his hand. As Marc dodged he didn't forget to kick the air and send a *Pressure Canon* with his foot in Kasai's face. It didn't do much damage though as Kasai face only got a few more cracks, from the forceful boost his Magic Power got.

At first, Marc trained to be able to walk and run in the air, seemingly making the air his ground, but he had to give up as the control needed for that was absurd, not to mention the constant Magic Power he had to use. He realized walking on water and air is not the same feeling at all as the density is far apart.

Instead, he opted to make his feet like rockets as Shinra Kusakabe (Fire Force) and Iron Man does. His end goal is to reach a speed like Borsalino (One Piece) and make silent movements like Yoruichi (Bleach) can.

Grin, that's what Marc did. He felt he was choosing the right direction to use his magic and wanted real experience in using it, so why not use the training dummy in front of him?

As his attack missed, Kasai didn't want to let Marc breathe, so he put his hands together and created 3 walls around to trap him before sending hundreds of spikes in his direction.

Trapped from all sides besides the front and top, Marc made a miniature *Ursus Shock* and quickly threw it in the air like a tennis ball, before he jumped in the air and kicked the bubble of air with the sole of his foot.

*Explosion*

It made a big explosion and sent a blast in the direction of Kasai's earth spikes and himself.

The earth spikes didn't stand a chance and were blown to smithereens by the blast and it proceeded to destroy everything in its path.

It was too fast for Kasai to move out of the way, so he reinforced himself with earth to take it on. His body covered itself with an orange, flexible, rock-like hide. His neck looked nonexistent.

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(A/N: Let me know what you think of the way Marc's using the Paw Magic. I know it's different from how Kuma uses it, but that's the idea.)

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