CHAPTER 29: NERVES

CHAPTER 29: nerves

Ryu continued, following Maximus from behind. So far he met a pretty interesting person and wondered who else he was going to meet today. From afar he saw a small boy with light blue hair, some part of his hair covering his left eye. He seemed to be fast asleep as he rested his head on the table before him with his eyes closed.

"That must be out next stop" He said,

Max and Ryu stopped infront of the boy unlike the last one who didn't notice thier presence, the boy eyes opened seeing light blue pupils in his eyes which were lighter and shone brighter than Ryu's.

The boy yawned lazily and raised his head from the table to look at them, he stretched as he remained seated on the chair.

"Who brought this kid here" Ryu's said inwardly,

The boy was wearing a white short sleeve shirt, black trousers with red lines on the side. Ryu got jealous seeing the boys really expensive red and black kicks.

Max turned to Ryu,

"This is Lepris"

Max said introducing the boy to Ryu, the boy gaze shifted to face Ryu. For a young boy he had Zero emotion showing on his face and looked more like a lost soul.

"His technique is called dark void" Max said, getting Ryu's attention. Ryu on the other hand was confused , he has never heard of a technique with such a name. Max saw Ryu's confused expression and raised an eyebrow,

"You've never heard of it?" He asked,

"Not really, no" Ryu said,

Max turned to Lepris with a smile,

"Lepris can you explain your technique to our friend here"

"Dark void is a technique which allows it me to teleport to areas around me through dark portals which leads to an empty void, before the second portal opens at my destination before i get out"

Lepris spoke with a low soft tone in his voice,

"Kinda like my instant transmission, I vanish and end up in a void before i teleport out"

"Our techniques are alike" Ryu said and Max steps in saying,

"The darkness he falls into Lepris named it the croxx space. According to him, its the none existence space between him and our world"

"Its quiet, peaceful, no noise, no humans, just wish to stay there for eternity" Lepris said his voice soft and low like before. Ryu was stunned hearing the boys words and didn't exactly know what to think. But he had something in mind,

"A...."

Before Max could say anything Ryu's cuts in,

"Don't worry, you'll get there when your dead"

Ryu said with a dull threatening tone in his voice.

Lepris raised his head to look at Ryu and both boys released a burst of curse as they glared at one another.

"Hold up" Max said,

"You guys should not try to destroy yourselves, at least not yet" He said,

"Ryu let's go"

He said in a calm voice and the boys glared at each other once more, before Ryu broke his gaze from Lepris and followed Max as he left. Lepris stared at Ryu's back as he left,

"Weird guy" Lepris said with his soft voice and stared at Ryu as he left.

"The next person I'm about to introduce to you..." Max paused and turned to Ryu,

"She's dangerous so be careful of what you say" He said,

Ryu was taken back by what he said,

"She?" He asked,

They kept going. From a distance Ryu's could see a girl around his age as well, black hair tied to the back like a pony tail. She had black pupils in her eyes, wearing a blue long sleeve shirt, black trousers and glasses. But with no,

"Curse energy" Ryu said not sensing curse energy radiating from her.

He and Max got to her, and Max once again introduced them both.

"Ryu, this is Naya"

Ryu stared the girl Naya from her head to her toe, sizing her up but stopped seeing her dull gaze of on him.

He turned to Maximus,

"How is she dangerous because I don't see it"He said bluntly,

Max stared at him, but was not surprised by his words, Ryu is truthful and there's no harm in that.

"His obsession with saying the truth is going to get him killed"

Max smiled,

"Well I'm not surprised" He says,

"That's the normal the perspective you get when you see her at first"

"Naya is an inhuman"

Ryu expression dropped his eyes on widened in shock, he has heard about inhuman but never actually met one face to face.

"What the fuck" Ryu said staring at Naya,

Ryu was more than aware of what she was, sometime ago he read and studied about them with the hopes of meeting one someday. Inhumans are individuals who lack curse energy, but thier natural strength and speed surpass even that of an ordinary curse user. The theory behind thier existence is simple but complicated. Complications are the main cause of the birth of inhumans. If a child is to be born a curse user, if there are complications with the childs curse energy, the child dies. But if the child survives the complications and loses his/her curse energy there is a high chance the child will become an inhuman. The strength, speed and power of an inhuman all depends on the curse energy the user possessed before the complication.