Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

Kai licked the blood off the corner of his mouth and smiled inwardly.

Outwardly, he showed a pained expression, as if he was thinking of what to do next.

The old man came running to him, then. "Back down, young lad," he advised, sweating all over. "You aren't his match."

There was more to the old man's words, Kai reflected.

"Oh!" he exclaimed, eying the old Contestant with short white hair and dark brown eyes. "Have you recognized what he had used to send me flying?"

The old man licked his lips in fear.

"My hair didn't become white doing nothing, you know," the old man whispered. "If I am not mistaken, then that brute is a Nen-user.

"It's best if you don't continue with his farce. Resisting Ren is difficult, young lad."

A Nen-user?! Kai's pupils trembled at the name, and then he called something that Meg had told him.

9 out of the 10 times, only a Nen-user can resist another Nen-user, she had said. The only other way is to suppress them with sheer will and power if you don't have some special Skills or Items.

Now Kai knew why the Mana and his Telekinesis didn't work against Hadoken.

Unlike the typical wizards and ninjas, Nen-users used Aura as fuel; the Life Energy stored in an individual.

Nen was inherently linked to Stamina, making HP its source.

To become a Nen-user, the most basic condition was to have at least 20 points in both Stamina and Perception.

The more Kai recalled Meg's words, the more he frowned.

It wasn't the time for him to go through all the instructions and warnings. Nor did he have the luxury to do so.

"You have two more chances!" Hadoken's shout arrived at Kai as a rebuke. "However, I don't see the point in them…"

This sentence brought out even more laughter from the Contestants.

"Come on, lad," the old man begged. "Once he's done with you, they all will find trouble with me. What did you even do to piss off a Protector, anyway? Just say sorry and…"

Kai pushed the old man away and walked toward the 6th-floor Contestant.

In between, Kai's walk became a run, and then a gale.

His Agility was already the highest among his Attributes, if one didn't count the buff in Correspondence.

So, when Kai spun his gears, bringing out his true speed, a shocking blur materialized within the Mirror Dimension.

Kai was so fast that even the fire roaring to his right died down, darkening the world.

Everything had gone silent for Kai, and all had become silent in the real world as well.

Hadoken narrowed his eyes.

"Osu!" he let out a powerful shout and then took a pose with his left fist pointed to the ground, his hand outstretched, and his right hand resting on his waist.

Like a stroke of brush made of wind, Kai rushed at Hadoken and entered the mire of Aura.

Hadoken's eyes narrowed even more, and he used Ren to make his Aura explode even mightier.

Then he fused his hostile intentions into his Aura and threw it toward the incoming weakling.

20 ft…

15 ft…

10 ft…

5 ft…

Kai's eyes had gone bloodshot, his right hand almost touching Hadoken's face.

The monstrous feeling of impending doom squeezed his chest, making him tremble, and blood kept pouring out from the corners of his mouth.

Hadoken spat. "Nothing more than a pathetic attempt! Fuck off!"

Bang!

Like a rag doll, Kai got thrown hundreds of meters away.

But no laugh resounded within the Mirror Dimension this time.

Just when it seemed Kai wouldn't get up, they saw him flicking the ground with his hand, somersaulting to his feet, and sliding on the ground before coming to a momentary rest.

His face was covered in dirt, his hat had been thrown away, and his white hair danced in the wind like threads of the smoothest silk.

Even if they didn't want to, the hearts of many girls trembled at this sight.

"Hehe!" Kai's laugh was so low and buried that only the old man heard it, making him shudder for an unknown reason.

Even a fraction of a breath hadn't passed for Kai to come to rest when he darted again.

A final mad rush!

Hadoken snorted. "If you don't know your limits, then let me sort it out for you. Osu!!!"

Hadoken's shout shook the entire world within the mirror dimension.

By now, some had figured out the nature of his powers.

But few knew he didn't possess any Nen-ability of his own. Still, his mastery over Nen wasn't something a 5th or even a 6th-floor Contestant could vie against.

Otherwise, with Hadoken's talent, he wouldn't have just ranked 42 in this Tournament of Worth.

What he did possess was an acute mastery over Gyo.

Ren focused on outputting a larger amount of aura, projecting it outwards explosively.

On the other hand, Gyo was an advanced application of Ren by which a Nen-user concentrated a larger than normal portion of their aura into one specific body part.

It increased the strength of that one body part but left the rest of the body more vulnerable.

With this ground-shaking shout, a large amount of Hadoken's HP burned, becoming Aura in the next moment.

As his face paled slightly, Hadoken took a Karate pose.

His right fist rested on his waist, and his left hand was outstretched toward the incoming blur, his palm and fingers open like a wall.

This was a standard form… before firing a punch.

Unseen to others, and unfelt to most of them, an explosion of Aura burst out from Hadoken's Aura Nodes.

This Aura wasn't directed forward like before, but it gathered on his right fist, making the surrounding space fluctuate.

Kai's speed seemed even a touch faster than before.

Even then, his Instincts were sharp and absurd enough to notice the difference.

To others, it seemed like Kai was rushing at Hadoken because his pride had gotten wounded.

Yet, the moment Kai entered the distance of 10 ft from Hadoken…

… a hissing breath escaped his mouth.

The hiss escaping Kai's mouth replaced the wind's howls and the lingering effect of Hadoken's shout.

Blood flames soared around Kai, power gushing out from his entire body.

"Hehe!" he laughed eerily like a maniac, licking his lips. "Bloodlust… I have it, too."

Something happened then that nobody had expected.

Kai's face became expressionless, his eyes looked into Hadoken's pupils, and then with a bang, his killing intent seeped out, engulfing everything in front of him.

In all eyes, it seemed Kai was just using his trump card, covered in mysterious red-colored flames.

Only Hadoken faced the brunt of Kai's bloodlust. And because he was a Nen-user, he saw more than that.

To him, Kai had become the embodiment of Demon.

Kai replaced Hadoken's world.

Kai replaced the meaning of existence.

Kai extinguished the meaning of logic and norm.

Unknown to Kai, the end of his white hair glowed yellow.

As Hadoken's right fist stretched, punching at Kai, a primal fear originated in his heart, as if the world despised his existence. His gaze moved up, leaving Kai's face, and came to rest a few feet above the white-haired Contestant.

Within those blood flames, a yellow-colored demonic grin could be seen, eying him with the vilest gaze a man could know.

Hadoken's teeth chattered, and his fist trembled as it advanced.

His legs lost their sense of power, and he felt his bowels going loose.

Nobody from the 2nd Set was worthy enough to sense the crisis Hadoken was facing at this moment.

No one.

At this time, Kai raised his right hand and curled his fingers inward as if he wanted to hammer it into his opponent's face; they had come so close.

The blood flames had already taken over the vision of many, blurring Kai and Hadoken's existences.

Just when it seemed it was all over for Kai, Hadoken's wide punch almost landing on his face, the trajectory of the incoming fist shook and stirred away.

Something even weirder and heart-palpating happened, then.

In Kai's right hand, a sword appeared, pointing at the dark sky murderously.

The moment the sword appeared, the blood flames around Kai became so red and dense that they blinded everyone.

Kai's eyes brimmed with murder.

Today… he wanted to kill.

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