Chapter 14

Please god. It doesn't matter what I must give, just a single push would be fine. Just push him away. Just a slight push. I will give you everything after my death, so please, at least help me protect my sister.

As if god answered his call, unimaginable pain ruptured in his head; his vision started to become blurrier. A third tomoe appeared and they started to merge with another forming a yin-yang like symbol on his right eye and a spiky chakram, which connected to his iris with 4 swirly lines on his, left.

Blood poured out of his eyes, activating both their abilities.

Immense weight was placed on the swordsman, forcing him to cut off one of Taiyo's right arm, giving him a lethal wound instead. But what happened to him aghast him, his right arm was also suddenly cut off. He swung his leg at the child's head knocking him back a few metres away.

"What the fuck did you do, you bastard? Are you a nen specialist?"

"I have no fucking idea what you are talking about but," a smiled crawled on his face, "serves you right, asshole."

He was unable to see. His vision had basically disappeared, and his sense of touch was gone from using break the pain. He could only use his sense of smell, taste and see the flow of nen to escape the situation.

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Whilst this was going on, the battle between the 3 phantom troupe and the parents was coming to an end.

Akira was seen malnourished and dry like a husk, his beautiful skin was gone, replaced by dried cracked mud, his face was that of an elderly man. He was surrounded by hundreds of mud soldiers he created using his nen ability.

His nen ability, in fact, allowed him to manipulate anything but he did not use it often. The problem was that the price of manipulating something that did not have a lifeforce itself, caused him to use his own as a substitute and turn it in to energy for his creation to be used.

Akira laughed hysterically, "seems like I'm going to be the first to go out, huh?"

In front of him was a girl with a hoover. Her ability directly counters his, as all she had to do was suck his earthly creations using her nen ability. It was like feeding gasoline to wildfire – not a good idea.

She stared at the man, not knowing how to answer him.

"Could you at least answer my question, why did you attack us?" Akira asked.

"A book. He wanted a book" She spoke. "Oh, and your eyes. Chrollo, wants your eyes."

"A book and our eyes, what a combination," he remarked.

He shoved his hand to his heart and smashed it, letting blood pour out of his mouth. A gaping wound was placed on his chest, where blood was leaking, "go to fucking hell. You and your fucking group."

His body dropped to the ground and became part of the earth. Vast amount of nen then started to pollute the dirt. Wind twist and turned, transforming into wolf like beasts. The earth rumbled, with clones of Akira being formed from the ground.

"ah?" The girl turned her head back to see a hulking man that had long earlobes dangling down to his neck, touching her shoulder.

"Need any help," he asked, whilst looking at the nen curse being created in front of him.

"Hmmm, probably, Franklin."

He nodded when he heard her answer and opened up his fingers, which allowed hundreds of nen bullets shot out. They easily pierced through Akira's mud clones and wind wolves, causing them to collapse. However, they all regenerated all the damaged caused by the bullets.

"Tsk. How annoying." He then used Gyo on his eyes to see strings of nen attached to the creatures. All of the strings lead to one destination, the place where Akira dead body was absorbed.

The mud clones charged towards Franklin and hardened their fingers. But before they could strike him, the young girl tried to suck them up, but it seemed this time they were filled to the brim with nen.

"Huh?" She then strikes 5 of the mud clones with her hoover instead. The rest of the mud clones then used their harden fingers to scratch Franklin. "They are made of nen, now?" She titled her head in confusion.

Franklin gave her a confused look whilst beating down the mud clones, "you're telling me they weren't made of nen before?"

She shrugged her shoulders.

A sigh escaped from Franklin mouth, whilst he started to formulate a plan to defeat the nen curse.

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Amaterasu saw the death of her husband but continued to fight against the short and large man. From what she saw, the large man was a simple enhancer and the small one seemed to have the ability to convert damage to energy or nen.

"Ignorant cleave!" She roared as nen blasted into her fist to form a long cleave that doubled her size. The blade was swung and ripped through the trees and smashed against the body of the unruly body. The blade only had cut his skin.

Amaterasu was a transmuter and enhancer that had the power to change her nen into a blade. The condition to initiate her ability is that she must shout her attack before attacking. The longer the shout, the stronger the attributes of the blade would become. The blade shape is also dependent on the name she shouted. A simple ability for a simple person.

The brown brute grabbed her nen blade and crush it with his nen infused hand, "you really are strong! Makes it even better when I kill you."

"Praise the majestic scythe!" Her muscles had bulged, and she had zoomed across the battlefield to reach the large man, she shot her leg towards his abdomen, breaking the sound barrier. The foot itself carried a scythe that reached a meter long, with sharpness that made the air whistle. It dug deep in to the man's skin and muscles but was unable to reach his internal organs.

"That's going to leave a scar!" He would chuckle. His hand grab held on the woman's head and smashed it into the ground, destroying the ground below. He did once more with even great force, causing the ground to quake.

"Break the heat." Fire erupted from Amaterasu's skin, scorching both her and his skin, surprising the large man.

Break the heat works by making the muscles overwork themselves to produce enough heat to ignite the oxygen in the air. The ability itself does not give the user fire resistance as that can only be done through countless training.

Amaterasu's body had become a ball crimson muscles covered in flames. The problem with break the heat is that it burns through the user's muscles and fat, as fuel to produce the flames. As a result, she only had 10 minutes in this form before burning out.

Her speed had noticeably increased by a large margin, making it difficult for the large man to identify her movement as he only saw blur of flames. He then used Gyo on his eyes to try to find her. "Huh, to think that the flames are not made of nen. How peculiar."

At the moment he looked to the left, he sensed pain. Immeasurable pain. Her foot had burnt off the skin on his face and broke his nose, but when she saw the result of her strongest kick, it agitated her. "That was it?" she thought, "all that to get a broken nose?"

She had forgotten someone. In the trees, was the short man waiting for his moment, to assassinate her. He blitzed towards her with his blade and aimed at her neck.

She sensed the sensation of death and swung her body to the side, causing his blade to get trapped in her arm muscles.

With her available palm, she activated break the sound and slammed it on to the short man. His bone shattered, his organ jumbled, and muscles were destroyed, leaving his body crippled. He was clapped like a bug.

When the large man saw this, he was horrified. He ran off before telling the two other members to start running away. She was confused as to why and was about to chase after them, until she heard a chant of a language she has not heard of before.

The little man had stood up, with his broken bones, wearing a suit of amour colored in red and white. "You like heat you fucking bitch? Then I'll give you fucking heat."

A ball of flame started to form in his hand and steadily grew in size. The heat penetrated through her skin, but her flame resistance allowed to live a bit longer with her thoughts in her mind.

She knew she was going to die and what's worse, is that she is going to die in regret.

In her heart, she knew that her death is meaningless. She should have listened to her son and escaped with him. But her pitiful pride as the protector of the clan, lead to the death of her lover and possibly her kids. If only she had left. She could only apologize to him in her heart.

Tears shed in her eyes to only be vaporized by the heat of the sun.

"I'm sorry Taiyo."

Her body had disintegrated. Her home had been disintegrated. Her husband's cursed nen heart had been disintegrated. Nothing was left to remember her with. Her life had been erased from existence.

Her home was only left was with a scorched crater, littered with ashes and in the middle of it all, was a small man, laying on the ground, laughing maniacally.