Revenge (50.1)
Game
Thoughts
"Talking"
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"You're sure he'll come by here?" Gray asked casually, glancing over at Celia. Him and the greenhaired girl were standing in a seemingly random hallway, standing right around a corner as they waited for a certain man.
"He will," Celia confirmed simply, not saying anymore.
"How do you know?" Gray raised an eyebrow at her.
"Just trust me," Celia shot back, apparently intent on not revealing how she knew Bareth would walk through this hallway.
It's annoying that I have to jump him like this, but I owe Shizuka even more than I thought.
The reason they were waiting for Bareth to walk down this random hallway was due to Shizuka. Apparently, the woman's 'protecting' of Gray's friends had been rather vicious and painful. Both Bareth and Dareth had been pretty scarred from the experience, and their scarring was made even worse from Tamari's taunting. With Shizuka's backing and protection, Tamari had decided to mock the two brothers about what rather violent things Gray would do to them when he got back.
As a result, Bareth couldn't be found in the cafeteria anymore - or even really in the academy at all. The boy went to training and then straight back to his room, closing the door and not leaving until the following morning for training again. While that meant it was easy to find him, it didn't actually help Gray out in this situation.
The recruit rooms were strictly off limits, even if your instructor had no rules against killing. Breaking into someone's room forcefully would be grounds for punishment, which could range from expulsion all the way to being executed.
So, Gray wasn't going to risk busting into Bareth's room. Instead, he asked Celia for help, and they were in the process of waiting to confront him.
"He's coming," Celia muttered, and Gray nodded. He had sensed the energy signature about to turn the corner too, but he hadn't been sure if it was Bareth's or not. He hadn't sensed the man for months and didn't know how much larger his Ki pool had gotten.
As Bareth rounded the corner, he looked nearly identical to how Gray remembered him. He was short with a rounded face, a relatively lean body, and with a mop of black hair on his head. He looked a bit more muscular than before, but not by all that much.
[Arrogant] Bareth:
[Saiyan D-Class Recruit]
Age: 17
PL: 13,490,400
HP: 61,270/61,270
TKI: 65,990/65,990
Reputation: -2,790/-5000 (Slightly-Hated)
[Arrogant] Modifier - Individuals with this modifier will be naturally arrogant, believing they are better than others.
He's gotten a bit stronger, but…
Gray had already been far stronger than Bareth when he beat his ass before, but now that gap had multiplied many times over. What was once a beatdown could become a one-shot if Gray put even a bit of strength into a punch.
"Bareth," Gray greeted casually, stepping forward as Bareth rounded the corner.
"What do you want-" Bareth stopped in place, choking on his words slightly as his eyes widened, "G-Gray! You, um, look different! W-What are you, ah, doing here?"
"Just wanted to have a little chat," Gray kept the casual tone. He took a step forward, placing a hand on Bareth's shoulder and causing the boy to tense up. Bareth glanced at him nervously.
"One hit," Gray smiled sweetly, and Bareth blinked at his words.
"What?" He asked dumbly.
"One hit," Gray said again, patting Bareth's shoulder lightly - though even that light pat was enough to make him wince.
"O-One hit?" Bareth repeated nervously, slowly taking a step back. He flinched and stopped as Gray gripped his shoulder tighter, pulling the boy back toward him.
"I'm giving you one hit," Gray said bluntly, still smiling sweetly, "It wouldn't be good to die with pent-up anger, right? Isn't that how ghosts are made?"
"D-Die? Why would I-"
22,780 HP! (38,490/61,270)
Gray got fed up with the act and got straight to the point. He slammed his other fist into Bareth's stomach softly - at least, what was softly to Gray - and caused him to hunch over as spit flew from his mouth.
"Don't make me repeat myself," Gray ordered, standing up straight as the boy coughed out a glob of blood from the punch, "One hit. You have one hit. Make it count because if I don't die from it, then you will."
"G-Got it," Bareth wheezed out, stumbling backward as he straightened up. His eyes were still filled with fear, and that fear had only increased from Gray's words.
But he shifted into a fighting stance, cocking his fist back.
"You… my life would be so much better if you were just dead," Bareth spat out, the boy's composure breaking as he glared at Gray. Gray's low reputation with him wasn't just for show.
I'm thinking the same thing right now.
"Just die, you bastard!" Bareth lunged forward, swinging his cocked fist forward and slamming it directly into Gray's unprotected chest.
-5,000 HP! (2,407,100/2,412,100)
To Bareth's credit, the punch wasn't terrible. A large slap rang out from the impact, and a small shockwave shot outward from Gray's chest. But it wasn't nearly enough.
Gray didn't budge, simply staring down at Bareth with a smirk. Slowly, Bareth raised his eyes upward, staring into Gray's confident ones with his fear-filled ones.
Then, he promptly spun around and dashed forward - desperately trying to run away.
"I said one 'hit,' not one punch," Gray sighed in a mockingly disappointed tone, "Seriously, wasting your one attack on a punch?"
He could've at least tried a Ki blast or somethin'
A split second later, Bareth slammed face-first into the wall that was Gray's chest. Despite being a well-trained Saiyan, Bareth still stumbled backward, falling flat on his ass as he stared up at Gray with no small amount of fear in his eyes.
"What was it you said to Asia and Tamari?" Gray asked, his tone too casual for the situation as he towered over Bareth, "Something about 'toys,' right?"
"W-Wait, I'm sorr-"
17,250 HP! (21,240/61,270)
Gray's leg lashed out, slamming into Bareth's face and causing an eruption of blood to flow out of his nose. The boy was sent skidding into the tunnel wall, which dented slightly from the impact of his body hitting it.
I held back a lot, but…
Gray had been careful to barely even tap Bareth, as he didn't want to kill the man quite yet, but it still had taken out a huge chunk of his HP.
He's so weak.
"I'm sorry! I-I shouldn't have-" Bareth tried to plea, grabbing at his broken nose as he groaned in pain.
"Where's your brother?" Gray interrupted bluntly as he reached down and grabbed a handful of Bareth's hair. He dragged the man into the air, staring harshly into his eyes.
While Bareth barely went anywhere in the academy besides the training grounds and his room, Dareth had taken the looming threat of Gray returning much more seriously. Celia couldn't find him anywhere in the academy, or even on Planet Vegeta as a whole.
"I don't know-"
10,190 HP! (11,050/61,270)
Gray slapped Bareth across his bloody face sharply and the boy let out a hiss of pain.
"You don't seem to get what's going on," Gray leaned forward, his face inches from Bareth's as he stared into his eyes, "You're going to die. What you say next just decides how long until that happens, got it?"
Bareth's fear-stricken eyes stared back at him as he gave a rapid nod, "H-He dropped out of the academy! He went to join the Frieza Force!"
The Frieza Force?
That was an option for lower-class recruits who didn't think they had a chance at advancing, but it was a last resort. For someone like Dareth, who was near the top of the class and probably could've made it to at least A-Class, it meant he was humiliating himself by becoming a lowly grunt. He was forfeiting a chance at being a squad leader to become cannon fodder in the war.
"Can you find him?" Gray asked Celia, glancing over at her as he still held Bareth up by his hair.
"No," Celia shook her head. Gray's eye twitched in annoyance.
"Why not? Can't you use your connections?" He pressed.
"It's the Frieza Force," Celia replied bluntly, "Frieza barely tolerates us Saiyans because of our battle power, but he doesn't like us. Even if I convinced my Father to dig into it he wouldn't get far. Frieza won't give us anything."
Damn it. I'll just have to settle with this one for now.
It was annoying, but Dareth would get what was coming for him at some point. It'd just take a bit longer than Gray thought.
He's also probably on the front lines now. If he died in the war, I wouldn't complain.
It wouldn't be as satisfying as taking down the man himself, especially after Dareth attacked his friends not just once but twice - but as long as he ended up dead, the method to get there didn't really matter.
"I-I told you what you wanted to know!" Bareth breathed out nervously, his voice pained as Gray continued to hold him in the air by his hair, "Y-You'll spare me, right?"
As if.
"Would you have spared Asia and Tamari if they asked that?" Gray asked darkly, narrowing his eyes at Bareth.
He didn't have any sympathy to spare for the beaten man, especially after his words to Asia and Tamari. Considering the more lax rules in C-Class, it didn't take a lot of thinking to decipher what Bareth had planned to do to the two of them after he referred to them as 'toys.'
He would've done the same to Ochaco and Raphtalia too. I'm glad Celia pushed me into meeting him before we left for Earth.
"I-I would have!" Bareth blatantly lied, trying to save his own skin, "It was just a joke! I wasn't seriously going to do anything to them! You know I wasn't serious, right?"
Gray slowly raised his other hand, forming a finger-gun and placing it against Bareth's forehead.
"I'm not laughing," He said dryly, and Bareth tried again.
"O-Ok, it was a bad joke! I'm sorry, it was just a bad joke-"
10,190 HP! (0/61,270)
[Saiyan 'Bareth' has been defeated!]
+13,000 XP!
+13,000 Coins!
"It wasn't just bad," Gray tossed the bloody corpse on the ground casually, "It was shit."
And you clearly weren't joking.
"If you find anything about where Dareth went, let me know," Gray ordered, and Celia nodded in response, "It's annoying I could only get one of them, but…"
He trailed off as glanced away from the corpse.
I hope you're stronger when I see you again, Dareth. I'd be kind of disappointed if you died as pathetically as your brother.
Gray turned away from the corpse but then stopped. He slowly glanced over his shoulder at Bareth's body again.
"...uh, what do we do with him?" He asked dryly, glancing at Celia.
"Why would I know?" Celia tilted her head at him.
"Because you know everything!"
"I do," Celia's lips twitched into a slightly smug grin, "I just wanted to hear you say it. I'll deal with the body."
When did she become a tease?!
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Gray Tanaki:
[Saiyan Squad Captain]
Age: 18
Wallet: 19,873,970 Coins
Lvl: 24 (7,456,850/15,000,000 XP)
PL: 4.956 Billion
Available Points: 1,750
HP: 2,412,100/2,412,100
TKI: 2,629,255/2,629,255
TMP: 170/170
STR: 1800
AGI: 2055
END: 1340
INT: 1415
CHA: 1245
LUK: 1,345
KI: 1695
MP: 170
HREG: 1176
EREG: 1176
Skills: [Observe LVL 10], [Running LVL 17], [Determination LVL 20], [Ki Control LVL 17], [Ki Gun LVL 14]. [Ki Enhancement LVL 10], [KI Suppression LVL 12], [Ki Sense LVL 9], [Pushup LVL 17], [Punch LVL 17], [Kick LVL 17], [Jump LVL 17], [Flight LVL 9], [Prediction LVL 7], [Zenkai Boost LVL 6], [Cognitive Acceleration LVL 9], [Ah! Lord Freiza! LVL 7], [Mouth-Beam LVL 6], [Ki-Blade LVL 8], [Cooking LVL 10], [Ki Barrage LVL 9], [Ki Explosion LVL 7], [Ki Vision LVL 7], [Attack Boost LVL 1], [Swimming LVL 9], [Clothes Materialization LVL1], [Seal of Weakening LVL1], [Portal Creation LVL1], [Lie Detection LVL1], [Reflect LVL1], [Instant-Transmission LVL1], [Healing LVL1], [Multi-Form LVL1], [Gigantification LVL1], [MP Tracking Blast], [MP Conversion LVL 1]
Perks: [Gamer's Mind], [Gamer's Body], [Double-edged Sword], [Legendary Super Saiyan], [Perfect Ozaru], [A Cute Pawn], [A Humble Master], [Ladies Man]
Fighting Styles: [Boxing Style: Kolra LVL 2], [Fighting Style: Broly LVL 1]
Party: [Empty]
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