Kenshin was making his way through Crime Sorcière’s guild, the massive battle taking place in the Guild Masters chambers easily heard and felt throughout the entire building, he understood why Mako chose to challenge the Master, and he completely approved of his decision, the man had been running the guild into the ground and had turned what used to be a great and powerful guild into little more than a bandit camp. But what Kenshin did not agree with was that Mako had left him to deal with the rest of the guild, generally he would be overjoyed by the prospect of fighting so many strong opponents, but not this time, because both he and Mako knew full well that most members of the guild were little more than glorified bandits, sure, they knew a few spells but they were not true mages
Kenshin released an annoyed growl as he walked down the halls towards the main ante chamber of the guild, he was extremely annoyed and bored at this point, he had already imposed several restrictions upon himself to make the fights more challenging, he wasn’t using his wings, he wasn’t using his secondary magic, hell he wasn’t even using powerful spells, but still he was unable to find anyone who proved to be even the slightest challenge, in fact, he wouldn’t even classify this as a fight, it was an extermination, he was doing nothing more than clearing the vermin out of the guild
As Kenshin neared the antechamber the doors swung open and an absolute giant of a man stepped out before they swung shut behind him, the man was easily 6’9’’ and seemed to be the living definition of the phrase mountain of muscles, hell his legs looked to be as thick as Kenshin’s torso, but despite this the man didn’t intimidate him in the slightest, sure, he was huge and any normal person would be quite intimidated, but Kenshin wasn’t normal by any standards.
“Hehehe, you better run now you puny Devil, the others might all be tiny little weaklings but I’m strong, you don’t stand a chance against me, cause I’m the great and powerfu-” said the man in an arrogant tone, getting cut off half way through his speech by a large explosive wave that sent him careening through the doors of the antechamber and crashing into the wall at the opposite end of the chamber. “I’ll have you know that I’m not a devil, I’m an Etherious, there a very big difference you musclebound idiot” said Kenshin as he walked through the demolished doors, finding the room completely filled with wide eyed Crime Sorcière members
“He beat Saizou” said one of the members, but Kenshin ignored “He did it in an instant” said another, also being ignored by Kenshin “How can we even hope to beat him if he can beat one of our Aces like that” said a third member, but this member got Kenshin’s full attention. “What did you just say?” asked Kenshin, his red eyes glaring at the man who had just spoken “I-I…uh, just said that you be-beat one of our a-aces” stammered the man, scared out of his mind by Kenshin
“Do you mean to tell me that this….weakling, is one of the aces of this guild?” asked Kenshin in a cold voice, his eyes red eye being shadowed by his white hair. “Oi, Saizou’s not a weakling, he’s a master of Take Over magic” yelled one of the other members, getting a scoff from Kenshin who’s hair was still shadowing his face “You expect me to believe that bullshit, if he was truly a master of Take Over magic then I would be having the time of my life fighting him, but no, I’m standing here completely unharmed while he’s over there lucky to be breathing” said Kenshin, an ominous red glow emanating from his shadowed eyes
“Well I’ve seen him use it, he can transform his whole arm into a beasts, it’s got claws and scales and everything, so I have proof that he’s a master” yelled the same member again, getting confused when Kenshin performed a single mudra and extended his palm towards him, but his eyes widened in terror when two purple magic seals formed around his hand “Amaterasu Formula 19” said Kenshin before the two magic seals exploded outwards, sending a thick purple beam straight at the man, exploding when it hit him and sending him crashing into the wall just like the ace
Kenshin raised his head and revealed his glowing red eyes, glowing because of the sheer rage that he was feeling right now “You fools obviously know nothing of Take Over magic, if you did then you would know what a single limb partial transformation is nothing to gloat about, so how about you shut the hell up about things that your tiny brains obviously can’t comprehend” said Kenshin in a cold and mocking tone
“You….may have beaten….Saizou…but you can’t… beat all of us” said the man that he had just blasted before he lost consciousness, getting a snort of derision from Kenshin. “Come on then, I’m stronger than all of you could ever dream of being, I’m a firm believer in quality over quantity, and even if every single one of you were to charge me at the same time there is nothing you can do that would be able to defeat me” said Kenshin with a dark smirk on his face, he was truly hoping that at least one of them would try to rally the others to fight against him
“You talk big, but you don’t seem all that tough to me” called an arrogant voice from within the large crowd of people, causing Kenshin to look in that direction with a smirk as the crowd parted, and allowed him to see the person that had called him weak, it a middle ages man with dark, tanned skin and a large mane of black hair, the red Guild Mark of Crime Sorcière proudly in the center of his forehead
“Oi look, its Midou, he’ll put this brat in his place” said one of the members of the crowd, his confidence obviously bolstered just by the mere presence of this Midou, and based on that he was willing to bet that this man must have been one of Crime Sorcière’s aces, but he was still not impressed, if this Midou was anything like the other ace that he’d seen then he was just a weakling who pretended to be strong
“Feel free to give it a shot, prove to me that not every member of this pathetic guild is a useless weakling, that is, if you can” challenged Kenshin in a mocking tone, all the while hoping that this guy was not just talk, and that he could actually put up a fight
“Don’t say I didn’t warn you demon brat, you’re about to find out why they call me ‘The Golem’, Golem Armor” called Midou as he clapped his hands together, causing a large yellow magic seal to form beneath his feet. Kenshin watched in interest as the earth beneath his feet seemed to turn into a liquid that began covering his body, eventually forming a massive stone figure with glowing yellow eyes and a sneering face etched into its surface
“I’m gonna grind your bones to dust!!!” yelled Midou before he charged at Kenshin, who was looking at Midou with a smirk on his face, something that confused Midou slightly, but he chose to ignore the feeling and focus on smashing Kenshin. Midou lifted his stoned covered fists above his head and smashed them down on Kenshin, the force behind the blow causing the ground to shatter and a massive cloud of dust to obscure the point of impact, something that got cheers and whoops from the other guild members, who believed that Kenshin had been taken down by Midou
“Stupid demon, thinking he could beat Midou the Golem” said Midou as the cloud began to disperse, and when it had fully dispersed he and the other guild members were shocked by what they saw, instead of the beaten and broken body of the Etherious that they had been expecting to see they saw nothing but rubble, Kenshin was nowhere to be seen. “What, did you really expect me to stand still and let you hit me” said a familiar voice, coming from the quite possibly the last place that they had expected it to come from
When they turned to where the voice had come from they all froze in shock as they saw the familiar form of Kenshin sitting atop the broken and battered form of Saizou, the supposed master Take Over mage and one of the two aces of Crime Sorcière, and it was glaringly obvious that he hadn’t moved himself, as his beaten and broken body had been slumped against the wall, completely unconscious, but now he face down on the ground, with Kenshin sitting on his back. Their shock quickly turned into anger as Saizou released a groan of pain “Oi you bastard, can’t you see that he’s hurt” yelled Midou in anger “Am I supposed to care, tell me, do any of you care when you hurt innocent people to get their jewels? No, I didn’t think so, so why don’t you shut you’re damned mouth before I do it for you” said Kenshin coldly as he stood up, earning another groan from Saizou
“Now I can’t say that I’ve been a member of Crime Sorcière for long, hell I’ve never even met most of you, and the few of you that I have met I can honestly say that I would’ve been better off not knowing, but it’s for that exact reason that Mako and I are doing this, you people have been dragging the name of this once proud guild through the mud and we refuse to let you do it any more” said Kenshin, glaring at the other members of the guild, something that earned a scoff from Midou. “Give me a break you arrogant little shit, why should I care about the guilds reputation, all I care about are the jewels, hell that’s all most of us care about, so you and that pompous bastard Mako can go screw yourselves, I told the master that accepting Mako into the guild would be a mistake, but he didn’t listen, and now look at what going on, Mako’s staging a coup, the master should’ve listened to me, but now I’m gonna smash you, then I’m gonna smash Mako, and then I’m gonna take over and turn this place into what it should’ve been, a Dark Guild, and then we’ll rake in the jewels” said Midou with a cocky smirk, not noticing that Kenshin’s eyes had once again started glowing
“You pitiful trash, you can threaten me all you want, but the second you threatened Mako you made the biggest mistake of your life, you see, Mako took me in when I had no one else, if it wasn’t for him I would have died a long time ago, and anyone that dares to threaten him will have to go through me first, I recommend you all run now” said Kenshin as he shook in anger, directing the last part at the other members of the guild, all of whom took his advice and ran, dragging the two unconscious men out with them, leaving Kenshin and Midou alone in the antechamber.
Midou immediately charged at Kenshin, who was doing nothing but glaring at the earth covered man, as Midou got closer though Kenshin performed a single mudra and waited, and when the hulking golem got close enough Kenshin extended both of his hand out, allowing a large Amaterasu seal to form around his hands “Amaterasu Formula 12!” yelled Kenshin as the seal exploded outwards, the force behind the explosion causing Midou to skid back slightly and tearing away a good portion of his Golem Armor, but Kenshin wasn’t done yet, he quickly preformed another mudra and extended his palm out towards Midou, who was still slightly dazed from the previous explosion “Amaterasu Formula 6” called Kenshin as an Amaterasu seal formed on his palm and sent five small spheres flying at Midou, who was unable to dodge because of the speed of spheres, all of which exploded on touch and tore away more of his Golem Armor
“Damn you brat, take this, Crushing Fists!” called Midou as he slammed his hands to the ground, a large yellow magic seal forming under him as ten large fists of earth shot from the ground towards Kenshin. Kenshin quickly countered by going performing 3 mudras, “Amaterasu Formula 53” he called as five huge Amaterasu seals formed in front of him, all of which immediately exploded outwards, completely obliterating Midou’s spell and even hitting Midou himself, stripping him of the last of his Golem Armor and sending him flying into the wall of the antechamber and causing him to slump down to the ground
“Heh, you should feel honored Midou, you made me use a B-rank spell and even managed to survive it, but now you should realize how futile your struggle is, you never stood a chance against me just as your master does not stand a chance against Mako, we will be the force to change Crime Sorcière forever but you will not be here to see it, now leave the guild and never come back or else I swear I will end your pathetic life” said Kenshin coldly with a glare, the only reason that Kenshin was allowing Midou to leave was because the man had proved to be a slight challenge, not much of one but still, he had forced Kenshin to use a B-rank spell, something that no other member of the guild had managed
“You’ll pay for this…I swear it” said Midou in a mixture of pain and anger, but never the less he heeded Kenshin’s warning and dragged his beaten and broken body out of the guild, his threat causing Kenshin to release a smirk, knowing for a fact that the man was all talk and tat he’d never see the man again. It was then that Kenshin noticed something, the massive crashes coming from the Guild Masters chambers had stopped, signifying the end of the fight between Mako and master, or the ex-master now since Kenshin knew for a fact that the man stood no chance against Mako. So with that Kenshin leaned against the wall of the chamber, waiting for Mako to make his way down and give the speech that he had no doubt prepared, and it appeared that the rest guild members had come to the same conclusion as they began filing into the room
Before long they began cheering and laughing, no doubt believing that Mako would lead the guild the same way as the ex-master, but Kenshin knew that they couldn’t be more wrong, in fact he had a feeling that Mako was gonna completely purge the guild and begin anew, sort of like how a Pheonix rising from the ashes, at least that’s how Mako would think of it. Either way he was content with allowing Mako to take the reins of the guild, so he just continued leaning against the wall with his eyes closed, waiting for Mako to appear and make his speech, but despite this Kenshin was ready and waiting to strike, just in case any of the guild members tried to do something foolish like attacking Mako for doing what needed to be done. And before long Mako appeared, and just as Kenshin suspected he made quite the speech, talking about how guilds were created by ideals not jewels before he proceeded to remove everyone’s guild tattoo’s and explain that he was gonna be rebuilding Crime Sorcière from the ground up, and if they wanted to be a part of the guild they must reapply and that it would be nothing like the guild as it was now
By the end of the speech Kenshin had to supress a smirk, Mako really did have a flair for the dramatic, but then again that was one of the reason that Kenshin knew that Mako would be a better Guild Master than he could ever hope to be, besides, he wasn’t really the leading type, and was more than content in taking orders from Mako.
Total WC: 2749
Jewels
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